OII academics win Teaching Award
17 May 2024
Dr Gemma Newlands and Dr Fabian Stephany have been named as winners of the Achievement Award at the University of Oxford 2024 Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards.
17 May 2024
Dr Gemma Newlands and Dr Fabian Stephany have been named as winners of the Achievement Award at the University of Oxford 2024 Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards.
13 May 2024
Links between internet adoption and wellbeing are likely to be positive, despite popular concerns to the contrary, according to a major new international study from researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute.
29 April 2024
Five faculty members have received Dieter Schwarz Foundation (DSF) funding, enabling them to begin new 12-month research projects at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII).
13:00 -14:00, Seminar room, 1 St Giles
With Elaine FordElaine builds off of her previous research and experience to explore how digital democracy is being transformed by emerging technologies, especially through the development and use of generative AI.
Find out more about the research of academics who have recently joined the OII
Postdoctoral Researcher
Amrit Kaur Purba has a diverse background encompassing clinical practice, policy, industry, and academia. Her research interests focus on understanding the potential causal relationship between digital technology usage and health.
Postdoctoral 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.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Zihao Fu is in the Trustworthiness Auditing for AI project. His research interest include Natural Language Processing, Large Language Model, Machine Learning, Biomedical Applications, Large Language Model safety fairness among other areas.
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.
The Hill, 16 May 2024
Worker productivity gains enabled by AI are concentrated at the lower end of the skill and income spectrum, a phenomenon that economists and labor unions warn could supercharge the practice of outsourcing jobs to lower paid regions of the globe.
The Daily Upside, 17 May 2024
The US is trying to box China out of AI development. The problem is the Asian nation is also the source of invaluable AI talent.
MIT Technology Review, 15 May 2024
And why you still can't trust AI search results.