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Lead Data and AI Ethics Group / Lead Machine Intelligence Group
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Biography: Keeley Crockett SMIEEE SFHEA is a Professor in Computational Intelligence at Manchester Metropolitan University She has over 27 years’ experience of research and development in Ethical and responsible AI), computational intelligence algorithms and applications, including adaptive psychological profiling, fuzzy systems, semantic similarity, and dialogue systems. Keeley was a steering committee member for the Policy Connect and UK Parliamentary Inquiry on Skills in the Age of AI. She is one of the five EPSRC Public Engagement Champions and was PI on the EPSRC “PEAs in Pods: Co-production of community based public engagement for data and AI research.” Keeley was one on the Founders of the People Panel for AI, funded by The Alan Turing Institute and adopted in 2024 Manchester City Council. She is the co-academic AI lead at MMU for the UKRI funded Centre for Digital Innovation and is working on several Innovate UK KTPs. Keeley was a collaborator on the AI Playbook for the UK Government and in Sept-2025 co-chaired the AI in Government and Academia Summit. She is part of the International Agentic AI Safety Experts Focus Group which includes the development of the Guidelines for Agentic AI Safety Volume 1&2 (2024, 2025). Keeley Chairs the UKRI’s AI & Robotics Strategic Advisory Team. She founded the IEEE Technical committee SHIELD (2022-2024) and currently Chairs the new IEEE CIS AI Ethics Education and Awareness Taskforce.