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By Cedefop
Cedefop’s CrowdLearn study is the first to examine skills development and skill matching practices in online platform work. It presents evidence from interviews with platform economy stakeholders, as well as crowdworkers themselves.
By Anne Ploin, Rebecca Eynon, Isis Hjorth, and Michael A. Osborne
There has been much talk about the potential of AI, but could it really transform the creative arts?
By Mark McFadden, Kate Jones, Emily Taylor and Georgia Osborn, Oxford Information Labs
The draft EU AI Regulation is a far-reaching attempt to provide a regulatory foundation for the safe, fair, and innovative development of Artificial Intelligence in the European Union.
Project Syndicate, 05 August 2022
Brazil’s statistics agency is refusing to include questions about sexual orientation and gender identity in its census, perpetuating the exclusion of queer people from official figures.
Middle East Eye, 11 August 2022
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Marc Owen Jones explains how governments and non-state actors use social media and digital technology to deceive and control citizens.
Business Insider, 31 July 2022
Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine said the company's AI bot LaMDA has concerning biases.
27 July 2022
New Oxford study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science finds time spent playing video games is unlikely to impact well-being.
20 July 2022
In their latest blog, data experts Felix J.Hoffman, Fabian Braesemann and Timm Teubner explain how data science can help tourism become more sustainable.
13 July 2022
AI creates unintuitive and unconventional groups to make life-changing decisions, yet current laws do not protect people from AI-generated unfair outcomes. In conversation with Professor Sandra Wachter as she explains how to resolve this issue.
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27 January 2022
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.
21 January 2022
Dr Alison Kahn, Loughborough University, discusses her paper on the role of social media in the making of the film "We, The Zeme" (2021) about the first Zeme Naga Olympics.
11 January 2022
In this presentation Professors Kim and Mike Fortun discuss archive ethnography as an experimental way to produce, curate, communicate and politically activate ethnographic knowledge.
