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Rebecca Whitworth is an engineering manager at Red Hat. Here she is part of a new initiative researching explainable AI and how to trust AI systems. She completed a PhD at Newcastle University, in which she developed a platform for scalable, geospatial and temporal analysis of Twitter data. After this, she moved to a small startup company as a Java developer creating solutions to improve performance for a CV analyser. She has a keen interest in ethical ML and AI and continues to research this within the business automation team.