Kay Firth-Butterfield is the Head of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) at the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a hub created by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The centre promotes global cooperation between various stakeholders to develop policy frameworks and benefit collaborations that can benefit science and technology. She is also the co-founder of the Consortium for Law and Policy of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the Robert E. Strauss Center, University of Texas. 

For the past three decades, Kay Firth-Butterfield has been a practising lawyer and a part-time judge in the United Kingdon, along with acting as a mediator, arbitrator, academician and an entrepreneur. In the United States, she has taught courses in undergraduate colleges and law school as a professional lecturer. She has taught a course at the University of Texas Law School for the Consortium: "Artificial Intelligence and emerging technologies: Law and Policy". At the same university, she has been conferred the honour of being a Distinguished Scholar of the Robert E Strauss Center. Her other professional engagements include being the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Industry Connections Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. 

Professionally, before her role as the member of the Executive Director at the WEF, Firth-Butterfield was the Executive Director of AI-Global and led the Ethics Advisory Panel of Lucid.ai. Under this role, she advised governments, think tanks and non-profits about AI. 

In her own words, Firth-Butterfield identifies herself as a "humanitarian with a strong sense of social justice...". She is passionate about exploring the impact of AI and other technologies will have on society and businesses and regularly addresses these challenging changes. 

At the RAISE:2020 platform, Firth-Butterfield is set to speak about the structures for the responsible management of AI.