OII | Projects

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Walking the walk

This project seeks to apply the principles of AI for Fair Work, by using these as a benchmark for empirical on workers’ experiences of the implementation of AI systems in the workplace.

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(De)coding AI: The impact of algorithmic infrastructure beyond the code

This is a transdisciplinary project investigating AI infrastructures and its political and environmental impact.

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Geographies of Digital Divide

A data-driven approach to understanding structural determinants of digital inequalities

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How to Write a 100-Year Plan for Digital Media

This project aims to bring together industry and academia to collaboratively develop principles for building an accessible social and technical infrastructure for preserving digital images.

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Bureaucracy and Artificial Intelligence

As governments digitalize, their bureaucratic structures are increasingly encountering AI. This project explores what happens next by asking how the structures of public sector bureaucracies transform when exposed to new AI-based systems.

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Augmented Learning or Automated Control?

AI technologies are increasingly being promoted to automate or augment work in the education sector. With the growth of these technologies, this project asks what tasks and skills are being affected by the adoption of AI in the education sector.

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Data-driven Mergers

This project seeks to provide an economic model of data-driven mergers: mergers involving a significant transfer of data between firms. It will study how they affect competition in the relevant markets, to identify potential harms and guide policy.

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The political geography of AI infrastructure

This project aims to map where in the world the data centers that make up the computational infrastructure of AI research are located and who owns them. It will also investigate government policies aimed at shaping this geography.

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Governing the likeness: How AI art communities of practice manage the use of real faces

With the introduction of open source AI tools for image generation, communities of practice exist that can generate image models trained on real people. This project explores how such communities develop norms about the appropriate use of a likeness.

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Understanding Video Game Play and Mental Health

This project will collect and share detailed behavioural game data donated by players to help us understand how the quality and quantity of online play shapes human motivation and mental health.

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Policy Review of AI and Informal Work in India

This project seeks to review the Indian government’s policies relating to AI and Work, to improve understanding of how they are/can be (re)configured to account for and address the informality that characterises Indian urban labour markets.

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Who and What is Designing Design?

This project studies the affordances of algorithmic image search for design inspiration in creative work.

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