12 April 2024
Four University of Oxford researchers have been awarded European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants of up to €2.5 million each to explore their most innovative and ambitious ideas.
18 March 2024
Current AI Visuals are one a one-size fits all sci-fi fantasy, highlights OII doctoral researcher Maggie Mustaklem. In her latest blog she explains why as AI’s remit grows, this needs to change.
13 March 2024
Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute and the University of Bremen share their insights on how digital technologies can be used to wield authoritarian power in the context of the Russian election.
13:00 -14:00, Seminar room, 1 St Giles
With Dr Tomás DoddsThis presentation draws from the concept of technological refusal to understand how journalists are anticipating and appropriating AI systems in their newsrooms.
Find out more about the research of academics who have recently joined the OII
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sakshi Ghai is a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the research programme on ‘Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age’, where she investigates the effects of digital technologies on adolescent well-being in global young populations.
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.
Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor, AI, Government & Policy., Research Associate
Chris Russell is the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor, AI, Government and Policy. Dr Russell’s work lies at the intersection of computer vision and responsible AI.
By Andreas Jungherr and Ralph Schroeder
Digital technologies have changed the public arena, but there is little scholarly consensus about how they have done so. This book rethinks the workings and dysfunctions of the contemporary public arena, and considers ways to improve it.
The emergence of AI image generation tools raises questions about their impact on creative professionals. This project seeks to work with professional photographers to explore the impact of this technology on their occupational legitimacy.
This project aims to reveal the determinants of success in entrepreneurship, startups and innovation ecosystems using data science and qualitative research methods.
This project investigates how human control is currently undermined in human-AI interactions. It presents sociotechnical approaches to examine mechanisms of control, and empower people in their interactions with increasingly advanced AI systems.
By Felix M. Simon and Luisa Fernanda Isaza-Ibarra
How might AI be used and regulated in the news to the benefit of journalists, news organisations, and the public? This report presents findings and recommendations from the Minderoo ‘AI in the News’ project.
BBC World Service, 30 March 2024
Prof Przybylski speaks to the BBC World Service 'Newshour' programme about adolescents, social media and wellbeing in light of recent calls to ban children from using smart phones.
CNN, 30 March 2024
The truth, as it often is, was less strange than many had thought.
CBC News, 26 March 2024
Royal Family is far from the first to offer handout images to the media — or edit them
