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Faculty founder: AI should be explainable and human-first

Angie Ma, co-founder of Faculty

Dr Angie Ma is the co-founder of Faculty, a company that builds custom enterprise AI solutions.

Ma founded Faculty with Dr Marc Warner and Andy Brookes in 2014. The London-based firm began as a fellowship to help STEM PhD and masters graduates move from academia to a career in data science.

It now provides software and consulting to businesses, with clients including HSBC, Tide and John Lewis.

Faculty has secured £40m in funding, growing to more than 320 staff providing AI services to public and private sector organisations.

It has several government contracts, including the Ministry of Defence. Faculty was controversially paid by Vote Leave to provide services during the 2016 Brexit referendum, but said it stopped doing political work in 2019....