By Brent Daniel Mittelstadt (Editor) and Luciano Floridi (Editor)
This book presents cutting edge research on the new ethical challenges posed by biomedical Big Data technologies and practices.

The internet and new technologies present equally new ethical dilemmas: Should we use automated decision-making systems that are incompressible to the people they effect? How should our personal data be handled after our deaths? To what degree can firms and states use our data to make inferences about our activities and wants?
Our researchers work at the forefront of internet ethics. Our projects tackle both theoretical questions – like the possibility of explaining complex ‘black-box’ algorithms – and more practical ones – like the content of a new European ethical code for post-humous medical data donation.
By Brent Daniel Mittelstadt (Editor) and Luciano Floridi (Editor)
This book presents cutting edge research on the new ethical challenges posed by biomedical Big Data technologies and practices.
This project will evaluate the effectiveness of accountability tools addressing explainability, bias, and fairness in AI. A ‘trustworthiness auditing meta-toolkit’ will be developed and validated via case studies in healthcare and open science.
This project transforms the concept of counterfactual explanations into a practically useful tool for explaining automated black-box decisions.
This project uses legal and ethical analysis to establish the requirements for applying a ‘right to reasonable inferences’ in Europe to protect against privacy-invasive and discriminatory automated decision-making in advertising and financial service
16 June 2022
Expert view: Digital ethics and defence expert Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo explains more.
7 June 2022
New report calls for robust AI standards to protect doctor-patient relationships and human rights.
26 May 2022
New paper from Oxford academic calls for changes in current laws to protect the public from AI-generated unfair outcomes.
12 May 2022
The UK funding bodies have published the results of the UK’s most recent national research assessment exercise, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.
NBC News, 27 June 2022
Emotion recognition technology typically relies on software to look at any number of qualities to automatically detect emotional state, Prof Sandra Wachter shares her insights on the ethics behind the tech.
Time.com, 13 June 2022
Op-Ed from Professor Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Thomas Ramge discussing issues around big data and digital platforms.
Business Insider, 14 June 2022
Last week, a Google engineer was put on leave after he claimed the company's chatbot was sentient. Was he right? The AI experts aren't convinced.