Academic ‘cancelled’ from civil service talk because of criticism of government

Dr Kate Devlin told her invitation had been withdrawn because of her past comments on social media

A UK academic says she was “cancelled” from giving a talk to a government department because she had previously criticised government policies.

Dr Kate Devlin, a reader in artificial intelligence and society at King’s College London, said she was due to give a talk to a civil service network within a government department on Monday, relating to women in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem).

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