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Apr 24, 2026 37 min

Jenny Rae: The Data Free-for-All

from Force Multiplier Hosted by Danny Attias

In this episode of Force Multiplier, Danny is joined by Jenny Rae, CIO of Imperial College London. Jenny shares her career path from a business degree at Oxford Brookes, to roles at Microsoft and BT, leading to her joining Imperial as Director of Digital Products. The conversation explores where the topic of sustainability has gone when talking about AI, and touches on student trust, concerns about profiling, and a lack of a “golden” GenAI use case. If you like Force Multiplier, make sure to check out Danny’s debut podcast Sondership, which shares Inspiring Stories from People with Purpose at Sondership.com Links: Watch AI Confidential with Hannah Fry: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002q76b/ai-confidential-with-hannah-fry Read ‘Hello World’ by Hannah Fry: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hello-World-How-Human-Machine/dp/1784163066/ Title Chapters 00:14 What’s the change you’re trying to make 01:19 Becoming Imperial CIO 03:14 From Microsoft to BT 05:40 Meet Daisy AI 07:25 GenAI Vision at Imperial 10:51 Jobs Fears and AI Teachers 11:54 Governance and Ethics 14:38 Student Data Boundaries 17:28 Student Success Chatbot 18:47 Collaboration Beyond IT 19:20 Frictionless Tool Enablement 19:45 Change Management Over Use Cases 20:33 Everyday Productivity Wins 21:53 Humans Still Matter 22:59 User Centric vs AI First 24:27 Blade Runner Future Vision 26:35 Sustainability and AI Costs 29:55 Risks and Critical Thinking 30:54 Managing Humans and Agents 33:31 Robots and Autonomy Fears 35:45 Human Flaws and Trust 36:41 Augmenting Healthcare Decisions

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