Introducing the 2025 MSc Thesis Prize Winners
18 February 2026
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 OII MSc Thesis Prizes. These prizes recognize outstanding work and contributions to the field.
Latest news
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
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.
Next events
23
Feb
Oxford Digital Ethnography Group Seminar Series
Beyond the label: repairing data work, rethinking AI
15:30 - 17:00, 58a Banbury road
With Srravya ChandhiramowuliDespite recent advances in AI’s computational capabilities, data work—the human labour required for training, fine-tuning, and evaluating AI systems—remains indispensable to AI production.
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
The AI smokescreen for getting rid of thousands of staff
The Telegraph, 17 February 2026
The OII’s Dr Fabian Stephany explains how organisations may use AI tech as a scapegoat for redundancies.
AI is indeed coming – but there is also evidence to allay investor fears
The Guardian, 13 February 2026
The OII’s Prof Carl Frey’s comments on investor fears over AI.
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.
