Jakob Mökander is a second-year DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute, supervised by Professor Luciano Floridi. He is supported through a fully funded Studentship provided by AstraZeneca Inc.
Jakob’s research focuses on digital governance in general, and ‘ethics-based auditing of automated decision-making systems’ in particular. The aim of his research is to help organisations to translate their commitments to high-level ethics principles into verifiable criteria for how to design and deploy autonomous, self-learning systems in practice.
Academically, Jakob holds an MSc in Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford, and an MSc in Engineering, Economics and Management from Linköping University, Sweden. Prior to joining the OII, Jakob was posted at the Swedish Trade & Invest Council in New Delhi, India, where he facilitated international, industrial R&D projects.
Applied ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Governance, Systems engineering
13 September 2024
A new report from the Tony Blair Institute, co-authored by leading AI figures including two Oxford Internet Institute researchers, has set out recommendations for government ahead of a future ‘AI Bill’.
27 October 2023
The OII is leading the debate on Artificial Intelligence. Generative AI has been a key area of interest for faculty, researchers and students for many years. This article brings together some of this work to date and highlights forthcoming work.
23 March 2022
Experts from the University of Oxford and the University of Bologna launch 'capAI', a new approach to help businesses comply with future AI regulations in Europe.
7 July 2020
It will be years before we can fully assess the long-term impact of the enormous and sudden disruption that Covid-19 has caused, but it is already evident that the effects have not been, and will not be, evenly distributed.
