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Mark Walport
Mark Walport
British Scientist
Born: Jan 25, 1953
Government Health Important People Research Science
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I was always taught at medical school that you should never do a test unless you could do something with the result. Mark Walport
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There is a particular set of values commonly associated with being professional. Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, wisdom, and good judgement are all attributes aspired to by senior professional people, be they doctors, engineers, lawyers, civil servants, or the clergy. Mark Walport
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Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively. Mark Walport
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Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation. Mark Walport
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New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In doing so, it has a potent opportunity to create new misconceptions and confusion. Mark Walport
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Forensic techniques are enormously useful in a wide range of fields outside the criminal justice system. Mark Walport
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It is important to recognise that, alongside the huge benefits that artificial intelligence offers, there are potential ethical issues associated with some uses. Mark Walport
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The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds. Mark Walport
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I am honoured to be appointed as the first chief executive of UKRI. My ambition is to make UKRI the world's leading research and innovation public funding agency. Mark Walport
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It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching the market. Mark Walport
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The principle of treating cancer is to kill the abnormally dividing cells. Many drugs achieve this in a relatively unselective way, killing any cell that is dividing. Mark Walport
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Banks and credit agencies learn continuously about the purchases we make. This is convenient and diminishes the risk of theft. It also means that banks can know more about our lifestyle than our close relatives. Mark Walport
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A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable. Mark Walport
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The best approach to risk is to identify and manage it. Mark Walport
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I've never been a proponent of something monolithic. Mark Walport
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If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do so in the future. Mark Walport
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If you look at my track record as government chief scientific advisor, I've always recognized that all of the sciences are important to all of research, and we need a balance. Mark Walport
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As a medical student in the 1970s, I was taught that the foundations of diagnosis and treatment were to take a detailed history and to perform a comprehensive clinical examination. Mark Walport
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Research must be central to healthcare if healthcare is to improve. Mark Walport
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Cities are central to the shaping and delivery of national policy objectives, and in return, they are the places where social, environmental, and economic policies play out in practice. Mark Walport
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An important task for government is to think about the future as well as to learn from the past, and the Foresight Programme, run by the Government Office for Science, helps in the development of this thinking. Mark Walport
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We are extraordinarily lucky in the U.K. to have inherited a diverse range of cities that bear the imprints of many centuries of human habitation. Mark Walport
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Like Israel, the U.K. is a democracy, and like Israel, we would never want to muzzle political voices, whatever their opinions - and that is especially true for universities. Mark Walport
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The U.K. is fortunate in its geographical position. We're an island. But we are living in a completely interconnected world where disruptions in countries far away will have major impacts. Mark Walport
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The involvement of clinicians, researchers, and, most importantly, the thousands of people who have donated DNA samples will help us to correlate genetic variation with individual variation in health and disease and help to deliver on the long-term promise of the Human Genome Project. Mark Walport
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We pretend that the debate about genetically modified crops is a debate about science when the reality is, actually, that the science is very clear. It is really a debate about values. Mark Walport
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