Digital literacy on the curriculum is an opportunity for a more proactive response to AI in schools
17 November 2025
The OII's Professor Rebecca Eynon welcomes curriculum changes, and urges an active role for young people in AI.
Latest news
The LLM arms race
17 November 2025
Jason I. Kim, Visiting Policy Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, considers how digital ecosystems learn to defend at the speed of change.
Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
4 November 2025
Largest systematic review of AI benchmarks highlights need for clearer definitions and stronger scientific standards.
Next events
25
Nov
Decoding Democracy: Politics, Data and AI
17:30 -19:30, Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub
With Dr Roxana Radu, Joey D’Urso, and Dr Linda LiGet ready to dive into the intersection of politics and AI through a range of perspectives. A joint OII and Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College Event
Four graduate degrees
Academic spotlight
Find out more about research by OII academics
Professor Andrew Przybylski
Professor of Human Behaviour and Technology
Professor Przybylski is a psychologist who studies how online social media and video games platforms influence users’ mental health. His research focuses on how data from these platforms can inform regulation, policymaking, and expert advice.
Professor Mark Graham
Professor of Internet Geography
Mark Graham is an economic geographer. His research focuses on digital labour, the gig economy, and digital inequalities. He is the author, most recently, of Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
Dr Ekaterina Hertog
Associate Professor in AI and Society
Ekaterina Hertog is an Associate Professor of AI and Society at Oxford Internet Institute and Institute for Ethics in AI. She studies how the rising digitalisation is reshaping private lives across the world.
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
Weakened data protection
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), 17 November 2025
The OII's Prof. Carl Frey comments on data protection and AI regulations as possible barriers to greater innovation in AI.
With AI, the company could disappear or transform into an ecosystem of loosely connected networks
Le Monde, 17 November 2025
Opinion piece from entrepreneur Sami Mahroum on the impact of AI in the workplace with commentary from the OII's Prof Carl Frey.
The claims about increasingly smart AI models?
de Correspondent, 13 November 2025
More vibe than science. The OII's Dr Luc Rocher comments.
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.
