Dr. Keegan McBride is an expert on topics such as digital government, digital innovation, the use of AI in the public sector, digital well-being and happiness, and government interoperability and data exchange. He is an active member of the scholarly community, participating in several high-level digital government focused conferences and publishing in leading peer-reviewed digital government focused journals. In his research he aims to develop an understanding about the future trajectory of the state in the digital age by exploring the complex and co-evolutionary relationships between technology, society, and the state.
Outside of these academic interests, Keegan is actively working with NGOs, particularly those that focus on reimagining a better, open, human-centric, and equitable digital future, he can additionally be found consulting and working with governments and private sector organizations on the topic of governmental digitalization. Keegan received an MSc in e-Governance Technologies and Services and completed his doctoral studies in public administration –both at the Tallinn University of Technology in Tallinn, Estonia.
Interoperability, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence in the public sector, digital innovation, open government data, digital government, digital transformation, co-creation of public services, procurement of innovation, digital wellbeing.
This programme supports research on AI, Government and Policy.
As governments digitalize, their bureaucratic structures are increasingly encountering AI. This project explores what happens next by asking how the structures of public sector bureaucracies transform when exposed to new AI-based systems.
09:00 -11:00, HB Allen Centre
With Dr Keegan McBrideJoin us for a panel discussion on the role of the United Kingdom in the development and regulation of AI.
13 June 2023
Let's start with the biggest narrative today. Will AI bring about the end of the world? No, AI will not bring about the end of the world.
BBC Radio Scotland, 27 September 2023
BBC Radio Scotland interviews OII AI expert Dr Keegan McBride about the upcoming UK AI Safety Summit and likely outcomes for the regulation of AI.
The National Interest, 23 July 2023
Failing to develop itself as a digital state, the United States will quickly find itself a bystander between the EU and China as the world’s new digital powers, write Keegan McBride and Albi Nani.
The Hill, 19 July 2023
British voters face a crowded field of 13 candidates in an upcoming special election for a Parliament seat. One, independent Andrew Gray, used artificial intelligence to come up with campaign promises that he says reflect what residents want.
This option course will approach the study of government and politics through the lens of data science.
