Do language models have an issue with gender?
9 June 2025
The Oxford Internet Institute’s Franziska Sofia Hafner explores whether language models are perpetuating gender stereotypes.
Latest News
AI’s limited understanding of gender puts health equity at risk
21 May 2025
Oxford researchers reveal how AI language models encode a flawed and binary understanding of gender, posing significant risks for transgender, nonbinary, and even cisgender individuals.
How the social media debate on teen mental health is missing the point
13 May 2025
Expert Comment: Professor Andy Przybylski explains how the social media debate on teen mental health is missing the point.
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Connected Life 2025: C³ – Connect. Create. Compute.
10:00 -17:00, Jesus College
Connected Life 2025: C³ - Connect. Create. Compute. brings together a global network of researchers, designers, policymakers, and visionaries to critically explore how we build and live in an increasingly connected digital world.
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Academic Spotlight
Find out more about the research of OII academics
Nick Ballou
Postdoctoral Researcher
Nick Ballou is a postdoc researching how video games affect mental health both for better and for worse, and how to make psychological research on games more trustworthy.
Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the OII's Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy.
Dr Sabrina Norwood
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sabrina studies the relationship between online environments and well-being. Her research includes creating and testing digital behavioural interventions to enhance user autonomy and digital literacy.
Publication Spotlight
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.
Latest Projects
Conversations between governments and citizens in a digital society
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.
The Promise of AI in Childcare
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.
Understanding the Causes of the Reverse Personal Computing Revolution
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.
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
Policymakers who think AI can help rescue flagging UK economy should take heed
The Guardian, 15 June 2025
Healthy scepticism is needed because flaw is that large language models remain prone to casually making things up
Should AI And Robots Be Taxed To Protect Workers?
Forbes, 06 June 2025
Detroit used to be the richest city in America, some said it was the wealthiest in the world (in the early 1950's).
AI alone cannot solve the productivity puzzle
FT.com, 16 June 2025
Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed, argues Prof Carl Benedikt Frey, OII.
Latest Podcast
The science behind successful start-ups
Fabian Braesemann and Paul McCarthy discuss the impact of founder personalities on startup success, how a predictive model outperforms industry standards to predict company success, and what factors can help us predict which startups will succeed.
