The New Era of Lawyerless Contracting
22 July 2026
Contract generators, platforms, and AI are reshaping consumer contracts. Luka Nenadic explains how and highlights the potential pitfalls and policy implications.
How social media interoperability could restore user choice
15 July 2026
Social networking interoperability is a leading policy proposal that gives users a real choice of platform providers. New evidence shows it only works if regulators get the specifics right, argues Philipp Riederle, doctoral researcher, OII.
UK adults increasingly seek emotional support and companionship from AI, new report finds
9 July 2026
New analysis from researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute reveals that users of artificial intelligence tools are increasingly turning to them for personal support, emotional advice, and companionship.
AI-powered social media can subtly manipulate opinion at scale, new study finds
6 July 2026
AI tools used to generate, edit or contextualise social media posts can introduce hidden biases that spread through online networks and shape public opinion, according to new research from the OII and the Hasso Plattner Institute.
Keeping Europe’s Technological Choices Open
2 July 2026
In an age of AI chokepoints, Europe’s choices will depend on the capacities it builds now. The OII's Johanna Ballesteros and TUM Think Tank's DR Nicklas Berild Lundblad explain why.
Rethinking EU AI policy: why public subsidies for AI should deliver real wellbeing
24 June 2026
A new working paper by OII researchers argues that EU technology policy should hold AI companies to account for actual public wellbeing, not just reduced risk.
Expert Comment: Is banning under-16s from social media protection or exclusion?
16 June 2026
The OII's Dr Vicki Nash warns that a social media ban risks leaving teenagers 'protected' but disempowered, cut off from news, learning and support at the very moment the UK is preparing to give 16-year-olds the vote.
OII researchers head to FAccT 2026
15 June 2026
Researchers and DPhil students from the Oxford Internet Institute are set to attend the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT) in Montréal, from 25-28 June 2026.
The efficiency paradox in EU data centre policy
8 May 2026
New EU reporting rules for data centre energy and water use may look like progress, but loopholes risk undermining genuine environmental accountability.
Friendly AI chatbots make more mistakes and tell people what they want to hear, study finds
29 April 2026
New Oxford research shows that training chatbots to sound warmer makes them up to 30% less accurate, and 40% more likely to validate users' false beliefs.
Why Europe Needs Two Kinds of Digital Sovereignty
24 April 2026
Whether Europe shapes the next technological paradigm or simply inherits it depends on one overlooked distinction.
Oxford Internet Institute researchers head to Rio for ICLR 2026
22 April 2026
OII researchers and DPhil students will attend the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations in Rio de Janeiro from 23–27 April 2026.