15 December 2023
Political parties want to win elections. To win elections, it is essential to understand voters. To understand voters, as demonstrated by the successful presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Barack Obama, political parties now rely on data.
12 December 2023
Fairwork researchers help to improve employment conditions for AI workers through launch of new report into working practices for internet workers.
8 December 2023
Instead of fixating on isolated risks and regulatory gaps, it is crucial to focus on how developers are making decisions about safety and performance issues in medical AI.
Find out more about the research of academics who have recently joined the OII
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sakshi Ghai is a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the research programme on ‘Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age’, where she investigates the effects of digital technologies on adolescent well-being in global young populations.
Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work
Carl-Benedikt Frey an economist and Associate Professor of AI & Work. He is also a Fellow of Mansfield College and Director of the Future of Work Programme at the Oxford Martin School.
Research Assistant
Lola Brittain is a Research Assistant on the Fairwork project at the Oxford Internet Institute.
By Andreas Jungherr and Ralph Schroeder
Digital technologies have changed the public arena, but there is little scholarly consensus about how they have done so. This book rethinks the workings and dysfunctions of the contemporary public arena, and considers ways to improve it.
This project aims to understand the ways in which algorithmic bias can stand as evidence of existing inequalities, with the aim of informing policy interventions to tackle the social causes of these disparities.
This project examines the fragmented legislations and legal landscape that governs the development, sale, and deployment of AI technologies used for government surveillance.
Based on a case-study analysis of bias in the Chicago Crime Prediction Algorithm, this project explores the extent to which evidence of algorithmic bias can be used to guide policy responses to the societal disparities replicated in these tools.
By Felix M. Simon and Luisa Fernanda Isaza-Ibarra
How might AI be used and regulated in the news to the benefit of journalists, news organisations, and the public? This report presents findings and recommendations from the Minderoo ‘AI in the News’ project.
BBC News, 07 December 2023
Now, anyone can become the target of their audio and video being used for malicious purposes without consent. So how can users be protected from potential attacks?
BBC Bitesize, 13 December 2023
There are lots of jobs around today that didn’t exist ten or twenty years ago. With technology advancing rapidly, the world of work is going to look very different in the future.
Tagesschau, 06 December 2023
Artificial intelligence can write essays or help diagnose diseases, but it can also lead to disinformation and discrimination. The EU therefore wants to regulate AI by law.
