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Allison Gardner

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Allison Gardner
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Stoke-on-Trent South
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byJack Brereton
Majority627 (1.5%)
Personal details
PartyLabour
Alma mater
Websiteallisongardner.co.uk Edit this at Wikidata
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisCharacterising and Predicting Amyloid Mutations in Proteins (2016)
Andrew Doig
Simon Hubbard[3]

Allison Clare Elizabeth Gardner is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South since 2024. She gained the seat from Jack Brereton, a member of the Conservative Party.[4][5]

Education

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Gardner was educated at the University of Kent (BSc), the Open University (MSc) and the University of Leeds (PGCE).[2][6][5] She completed her PhD in bioinformatics at the University of Manchester in 2016 where her research supervised by Andrew Doig and Simon Hubbard characterised and predicted amyloid mutations in proteins.[3]

Career

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Gardner works with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence as a senior scientific adviser for artificial intelligence.[6] Previously, she taught science and personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) in secondary schools. She was employed as a lecturer at Keele University where she led the degree apprenticeship programme in data science.[7] She has research interests in the ethics of artificial intelligence, data science, algorithmic bias, women in computing and computing education.[1]

AI regulation and ethics

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Gardner is a prominent advocate for the ethical development and regulation of artificial intelligence. Prior to her election to Parliament, she co-founded Women Leading in AI and served as its director, advocating internationally for the ethical use of AI, including work with the United Nations.[8] Her academic research has focused on algorithmic bias, gender and computing, and AI governance, and she has contributed to the development of AI standards, including the IEEE P7000 series on the ethics of autonomous and intelligent systems.[9][10]

In Parliament, Gardner serves as the Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG ) on Artificial Intelligence and is a member of the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee.[11][12] She has argued that regulation does not inhibit technological innovation, stating that "ethical frameworks and good governance" are essential for building public trust and ensuring sustainable economic growth.[13]

In her parliamentary work, she has examined the impact of AI on the creative industries and copyright law.[14] Gardner has strongly opposed proposals to introduce a commercial text and data mining exception with an opt-out model, arguing that allowing generative AI developers free access to copyrighted content without a licence is unfair to creators and risks the long-term success of the AI industry by creating a "reductive spiral into mediocrity" and "model collapse."[15] She has advocated for the retention of the UK's current copyright framework, placing the onus on AI developers to seek licences for the data they use.[16]

Gardner has also campaigned on the issue of deepfakes and the need for AI transparency. During an oral evidence session of the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee, she raised the issue of deepfakes with the Secretary of State, asserting that "people should have rights to their own voice and their own image."[17] In a debate on social media misinformation, she questioned the Government on its strategy to improve the labelling of AI-generated content, calling for "new regulatory oversight with clear, enforceable standards and penalties."[18] Furthermore, she has supported the approach of the private member Automated Online Software (Access and Transparency) Bill, which seeks to require operators of bots that systematically access and copy content from UK websites to identify themselves and declare their purpose, arguing that such transparency is a necessary "light-touch approach" to support creators.[19]

Beyond regulation, Gardner has highlighted the potential of AI to address societal challenges. She has spoken on the use of AI to drive a greener future, noting its applications in optimising energy grids and supporting advanced manufacturing, particularly in her constituency of Stoke-on-Trent South.[20] She has also emphasised the importance of addressing health inequalities through AI, while warning against the risk of embedding existing biases into healthcare systems.[21]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Allison Gardner publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. 1 2 Allison Gardner publications from Europe PubMed Central Edit this at Wikidata
  3. 1 2 Gardner, Allison (2016). Characterising and Predicting Amyloid Mutations in Proteins. manchester.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC 1065240845. ProQuest 1865298954.
  4. ↑ Anon (2024). "Stoke-on-Trent South | General Election 2024". sky.com. Sky News. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  5. 1 2 Allison Gardner on LinkedIn Edit this at Wikidata
  6. 1 2 Allison Gardner's ORCID 0000-0002-8483-121X
  7. ↑ allisongardner.co.uk Edit this at Wikidata
  8. ↑ "About". Allison Gardner. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  9. ↑ "Allison Gardner". ForHumanity. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  10. ↑ Gardner, Allison (2022). "Responsibility, Recourse, and Redress: A Focus on the Three R's of AI Ethics". IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. 41 (2): 84–89.
  11. ↑ "Register Of All-Party Parliamentary Groups as at 12 January 2026: Artificial Intelligence". UK Parliament. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  12. ↑ "Science, Innovation and Technology Committee". UK Parliament. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  13. ↑ Gardner, Allison (17 November 2025). "Harnessing AI for a greener future". PoliticsHome. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  14. ↑ "Creative Industries". Hansard. UK Parliament. 27 January 2025. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  15. ↑ "Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]". Hansard. UK Parliament. 7 May 2025. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  16. ↑ "Creative Industries - Volume 761: debated on Monday 27 January 2025". Hansard. UK Parliament. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  17. ↑ "Oral evidence: Work of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, HC 488". Science, Innovation and Technology Committee. UK Parliament. 8 July 2026. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  18. ↑ "Science, Innovation and Technology Committee: Social media, misinformation and algorithms". Hansard. UK Parliament. 17 July 2025. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  19. ↑ "Oral evidence: Work of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, HC 488". Science, Innovation and Technology Committee. UK Parliament. 8 July 2026. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  20. ↑ Gardner, Allison (17 November 2025). "Harnessing AI for a greener future". PoliticsHome. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  21. ↑ "An Interview with Dr. Allison Gardner, Director, Women Leading in AI and Senior Research Fellow at Keele University". Intelligent Health. 9 March 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
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