Brittany Smith

About

Brittany Smith is the Head of UK Policy and Partnerships at OpenAI. 

Brittany has worked at the intersection of AI and equity in industry, civil society, and philanthropy. Prior to OpenAI, Brittany was a Program Officer on AI2050, a philanthropic initiative within Schmidt Futures designed to support multi-disciplinary research on beneficial AI. Before that, Brittany was the Policy Director at Data & Society Research Institute, a nonprofit research institute challenging the power and purpose of technology in society. 

Brittany previously worked at Alphabet in policy and government affairs roles in London and San Francisco. At DeepMind, she helped build the company’s first policy and ethics research team, led partnerships and public engagement on AI policy, and created and led programs on human rights and racial justice.

She is a member of the Board of Directors of Partnership on AI, and graduated from Northwestern University and the London School of Economics.