Josh Simons
Labour MP for Makerfield; former director, Labour Together; author, Algorithms for the People: Democracy in the age of AI

Josh Simons is the Labour MP for Makerfield. Before the election, he was the director of Labour Together, Britain’s biggest political think-tank. He built a team of strategists and experts working with Labour’s leadership, MPs, unions, and businesses to help develop Labour’s plans to deliver for working people.

Josh ran for council in Bury and served as a public governor in the NHS Northern Care Alliance, and helped to found the Civic Power Fund, the first fund to support community organising across the UK.

Josh is also an expert in data, technology, and public services. His recent book, Algorithms for the People: Democracy in the age of AI, was based on his PhD at Harvard University. He worked as a visiting research scientist in the Responsible Artificial Intelligence team at Meta and was a technology policy fellow at New America.

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