Latifa Mohammed al-Abdulkarim

Latifa Mohammed al-Abdulkarim is a Saudi academic appointed as a member of the Shura Council on October 20, 2020. She serves on the council's Transport, Communications, and Information Technology Committee and represents the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the United Nations High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.

She studied at King Saud University, earning a bachelor's in Computer Science in 2004, a master's in Software Engineering in 2009, and another in Artificial Intelligence in 2011 from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, where she also completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence in Law in 2017.

She was appointed Assistant Professor in the Information Technology Department at the College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University in 2017. Between 2018 and 2019, she served as an AI consultant at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Since 2016, she has been a visiting researcher at the University of Liverpool in AI and Law and worked as a researcher at Weightmans Law Firm in Liverpool from 2016 to 2017.

In 2020, she joined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization "UNESCO" Expert Group on AI Ethics and the AI Tools for Executives project by the World Economic Forum (WEF), where she also became a member of the Global Future Council on AI for Humanity. Since 2018, she has been part of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, EAD, and a member of the International Association for AI and Law IAAIL since 2013. She was also a member of "Athena Swan" which supports women in STEM fields in Britain from 2013 to 2014.

Latifa al-Abdulkarim has participated in numerous seminars and conferences, including the Innovation in Law Conference where she presented "Transparency in Supreme Court Decisions - AI and Law" at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. In 2019, she delivered a lecture on "Skills Required in the Fourth Industrial Revolution" at the Arab Conference at Harvard Business School, USA, and spoke at the International Government Forum in Dubai on "Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence." In 2018, she was a speaker at the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva, discussing "Trust in Artificial Intelligence."