4 December 2025
A new joint study from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and the AI Security Institute (AISI) uncovers how conversational AI sways political beliefs and why it works.
2 December 2025
To govern AI effectively, states must learn continuously and at scale, argues Johanna Ballesteros.
25 November 2025
Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford will be at NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego from 1- 7 December, 2025, contributing to one of the world’s leading AI conferences.
Find out more about research by OII academics
Associate Professor Digital South Asian Studies
Janaki's research examines the politics of digital exclusion in India. She uses ethnographic and archival research to examine how gender, caste and class have shaped the use of information and information technologies in varied contexts.
Professor of Data Ethics and Policy
Professor Brent Mittelstadt is a data ethicist and philosopher specializing in AI ethics, professional ethics, and technology law and policy. He is the founder/coordinator of the Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) programme.
Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow
Bernie Hogan examines how to capture, represent and think about social networks, especially personal social networks. His work focuses on the role of design in social media, network capture techniques and theories of relationships.
This project seeks to understand how citizens listen and speak to public institutions, and how alternative AI-based models and framing might encourage democratic communication.
With mobile devices ubiquitous among young people, it is not surprising that parents are increasingly turning to technology for help in childcare. This project examines monitoring technologies and how parents use them as part of child supervision.
The shift to cloud represents a reversal of the 1980s personal computing revolution: computation is moving from personal devices back into large, centralized facilities. This project seeks to understand the economic drivers of this reversal.
By Andres Raieste, Andri Rebane, Madis Tapupere, Keegan McBride
In a world increasingly defined by crises—from pandemics and climate disasters to escalating wars—governments that fail to build digital resilience risk crumbling under pressure.
MIT Technology Review, 05 December 2025
A conversation with a chatbot can shift people's political views—but the most persuasive models also spread the most misinformation.
The Guardian, 05 December 2025
‘Information-dense’ AI responses are most persuasive but these tend to be less accurate, says security report by the OII's Kobi Hackenburg and Prof. Helen Margetts.
New York Times, 05 December 2025
Prof. Carl-Benedikt Frey writes in the New York Times that if the A.I. boom cools, what survives will be the systems that do more with less.
Fabian Braesemann and Paul McCarthy discuss the impact of founder personalities on startup success, how a predictive model outperforms industry standards to predict company success, and what factors can help us predict which startups will succeed.
