New study warns of risks in AI chatbots giving medical advice
9 February 2026
Study finds AI chatbots less helpful than search engines for medical advice
Latest news
Beyond the hype: Oxford & Berlin study uncovers four faces of ChatGPT’s early adopters
28 January 2026
New international study identifies four distinct archetypes of early AI users and challenges the "one-size-fits-all" notion of AI adoption.
Is an under-16 social media ban the right course?
23 January 2026
Dr Victoria Nash, Associate Professor and Senior Policy Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, researches the governance challenges of digital technologies, with a particular focus on online safety, content moderation and platform regulation.
Next events
17
Feb
Algorithmic Drivers of Online Behaviour: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment
12:00 -13:00, Schwarzman Centre
With Dr Aarushi KalraEvidence on how algorithms & user preferences shape harmful online engagement is limited.We share an individually randomized experiment with 8 million users of an Indian TikTok-like platform, replacing algorithmic ranking with random content delivery
Four graduate degrees
Academic spotlight
Find out more about research by OII academics
Dr Janaki Srinivasan
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 Brent Mittelstadt
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.
Dr Bernie Hogan
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.
Latest projects
Worker Voice and AI Adoption
This project investigates how worker representation in German firms shapes AI use and adoption, asking whether employee voice at firms can steer AI toward complementing workers rather than automating them.
Stewardship of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
The Synthetic Society Lab aims to improve how we research, access, and use sensitive human data. The fellowship will advance an evidence-based science of privacy engineering to make research using digital traces safe and reliable.
US-China AI Governance PhD Fellowship
The project will investigate the international relations and social dynamics of international AI competition, specifically the sociopolitical and bureaucratic drivers of US-China AI competition.
Latest report
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.
Press coverage
See chatgpts hidden bias about your state or city
The Washington Post, 12 February 2026
Researchers at Oxford and the University of Kentucky uncovered hidden biases in ChatGPT’s assessments of people from different places. Drawing on a study co-authored by Professor Mark Graham on the limitations of LLMs.
Safer Internet Day 2026 with Dr Vicki Nash
You Tube, 12 February 2026
Dr Vicki Nash, Associate Professor and Senior Policy Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, discusses the evidence for banning social media for under 16s.
AI in the Labour Market: Redistributing Job Opportunities
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), 11 February 2026
Dr Fabian Stephany comments on how AI can boost careers, particularly for older applicants and those with lower levels of formal education.
