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
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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
11
Feb
From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland
13:30 -14:30, Schwarzman Centre
With Dr Patrick BrodieThis talk will articulate Ireland's twin transition and AI industrial policy, offering a critique of dependent models of development and proposing an anti-imperialist approach to environmental politics
Four graduate degrees
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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
US companies accused of ‘AI washing’ in citing artificial intelligence for job losses
The Guardian, 08 February 2026
Dr Fabian Stephany comments on the trend for companies to cite AI as the reason for redundancies when other factors might be to blame.
“This makes what AI cannot replace all the more important.”
Die ZEIT, 04 February 2026
Thirteen years ago, Dr Carl Benedikt Frey warned that 47 percent of all jobs could be automated. And today? He sees a surprising number of reasons for optimism.
ChatGPT reproduces regional prejudices and classifies Northeasterners as ‘ignorant’
Folha De S Paulo, 03 February 2026
New research co-authored by Prof Mark Graham finds ChatGPT amplifies global inequalities.
