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.
Latest news
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.
New study finds that ChatGPT amplifies global inequalities
20 January 2026
New analysis from Oxford and Kentucky researchers shows AI systems reproduce long‑standing global biases
Next events
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Feb
Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age
12:00 -13:00, Schwarzman Centre
With Jon PenneyIn this talk, Jon Penney examines the increasing weaponization of surveillance, censorship, and new technology to repress and control us.
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
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.
AfriGPT: LLMs over SMS
This project investigates how low-resource AI chatbots shape labour and education outcomes in digitally underserved communities in Sierra Leone.
The Digital Good Network
The Digital Good Network (DGN) delivers an interdisciplinary, social science-led research programme centred on the urgent, neglected question of what the digital good should look like and how it can be achieved.
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
Amazon is cutting another 16,000 jobs
Der Standard, 28 January 2026
Since 2022, nearly 60,000 jobs have been cut. Fabian Stephany points out that a market correction is taking place in many areas.
How can I use AI to raise my salary?
Oxford Sparks Big Questions Podcast, 28 January 2026
Listen to the latest episode of Oxford Sparks Big Questions podcast with special guest Dr Fabian Stephany discussing AI skills and how solid skills can help improve someone's job prospects.
Like digging ‘your own professional grave’: The translators grappling with losing work to AI
CNN, 23 January 2026
As AI’s impact on jobs dominates the World Economic Forum in Davos, Dr Carl Frey highlights data showing machine translation has slowed translator job growth, warning that while displacement isn’t yet mass, deeper impacts on livelihoods are likely.
