Sandy Starr
deputy director, Progress Educational Trust; author, AI: Separating Man from Machine

Sandy Starr is deputy director of the Progress Educational Trust (PET), a charity that improves choices for people affected by infertility and genetic conditions. PET advances public understanding of science, law and ethics in the fields of genetics/genomics, assisted conception and embryo/stem cell research.

Sandy is project consultant for the Code of Practice for the Generation and Use of Human Stem-Cell-Based Embryo Models, published jointly by PET and Cambridge Reproduction. Previously, he served on the working groups that produced the clinical practice guidance Ethical Issues in Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis and Prenatal Diagnosis and Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Germline Cancer Susceptibility Gene Variants.

He has addressed MPs in Parliament on the subject of human embryo research, debated the morality of genetics on The Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4, and been interviewed about mitochondrial donation on the BBC World Service programme Newshour and in the book Legalising Mitochondrial Donation. He has lectured and written about genome editing for the Thackray Museum of Medicine, and has also written about genome editing in the British Medical Bulletin, the European Journal and Microbiology Today.

More recently he has lectured on the subject of artificial intelligence, and has published a pamphlet in the Letters on Liberty series entitled AI: Separating Man from Machine.

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