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Fortune Magazine, 16 June 2026
As Washington's decision to cut off global access to Anthropic's most powerful AI models sent shockwaves through governments and institutions, Prof Sandra Wachter shared her perspective with Fortune Magazine.
Al Jazeera, 15 June 2026
As the UK proposes banning under-16s from social media, OII DPhil Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan asks whether targeting users, rather than the product, is really the right approach.
BMJ, 11 June 2026
The OII's Luc Rocher comments on the UK Biobank data breach.
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.
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.
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.
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With David G. Robinson
Voices in the Code is the story of how one community built a life-and-death algorithm in a relatively inclusive, accountable way.
With Dr Murali Shanmugavelan
An introduction to Critical Caste and Technology Studies with Dr Murali Shanmugavelan
With Professor Vili Lehdonvirta, Dr Carl Benedikt Frey, Professor Helmut Krcmar, and Dr Rahild Neuburger
The first in a series of joint webinars looking at the theme of AI & work, jointly curated by the Oxford Internet Institute and TUM Heilbronn Campus.
