Rory Gillis
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Rory Gillis is a UK-based AI policy professional currently serving as Senior Policy Adviser (AI International) at the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), where he focuses on the UK's international engagement on artificial intelligence. He holds an MPhil in Political Theory from the University of Oxford (Mansfield College) and a BSc in Politics and Philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to joining DSIT, he worked as a Research Assistant and Project Support Officer at the Oxford Internet Institute, contributing to the Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) programme under Professor Brent Mittelstadt and Professor Sandra Wachter. In that role, he co-authored written evidence submitted to UK parliamentary committees on AI regulation and co-authored the 2024 paper "Trust and Trustworthiness in Artificial Intelligence" (with Johann Laux and Brent Mittelstadt), which examines philosophical frameworks of trust and proposes recommendations for AI governance debates. He received a small research grant to map and offer a preliminary assessment of AI ideal governance research, reflecting his early-career focus on understanding the landscape of normative AI governance scholarship.
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from Long-Term Future Fund
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- Mar 23, 2026, 12:44 AM UTC
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- Mar 20, 2026, 2:57 AM UTC