6 December 2024
Several researchers and DPhil students from the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, will head to Vancouver for the Thirty-Eighth annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) from 10-15 December 2024.
13 November 2024
A new study from AI experts at the University of Oxford and University of Melbourne reveals that men are much more likely to support the idea of being cared for in their homes by a robot when they are infirm or elderly, than women.
11 November 2024
In her latest blog, Dr Ana Valdivia explores the structure of AI supply chains, the environmental impact of data centres on local communities, and why scholars and governments need to reconsider algorithmic harms.
Find out more about the research of academics who have recently joined the OII
Associate Professor
Mohsen’s research lies at the intersection of computational/data science and cognitive psychology. He studies online harm, misinformation, and formation of social networks.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Kai works on AI explainability and fairness at Oxford. He builds upon his work auditing and testing machine learning models in industry and in academia, making AI systems safe and trustworthy.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Zihao Fu is in the Trustworthiness Auditing for AI project. His research interest include Natural Language Processing, Large Language Model, Machine Learning, Biomedical Applications, Large Language Model safety fairness among other areas.
By Mariarosaria Taddeo
The defence sector must address how to use advancing AI safely and effectively. Mariarosaria Taddeo offers a systematic analysis of AI’s challenges in defence, providing recommendations for policy-makers and practitioners.
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.
TechCrunch, 05 December 2024
Google says its new AI model family has a curious feature: the ability to “identify” emotions.
Yahoo Finance, 04 December 2024
Much of the discussion around artificial intelligence at work centres on how the technology may make us redundant. But in reality, AI is more likely to become a key tool for workers.
BBC News, 01 December 2024
Are you spending hours scrolling mindlessly on Instagram reels and TikTok? If so, you might be suffering from brain rot, which Oxford University Press has named its phrase or word of the year.
