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
2 March 2023
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 OII MSc Thesis Prizes. Three prizes were awarded for the best theses from the MSc in Social Science of the Internet and the MSc in Social Data Science, plus two ‘Highly Commended' awards.
29 November 2022
Having given expert evidence on the risks of using data proxies for bias monitoring at a workshop hosted by the Centre for Data and Ethics Innovation (CDEI) at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. Dr Luc Rocher shares their insights.
17 November 2022
Leading academics from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), believe the government’s current approach to the regulation of AI falls short and needs to be further refined to help ensure the ethical regulation of AI.
3 November 2022
University of Oxford has joined a new £4 million research network, the Digital Good Network (DGN), to explore how to ensure that digital tech is a for good in society and the economy.
The Daily Upside, 01 January 1970
Unless you’ve been living off the grid somewhere in the Azores, you’ve probably heard of a little thing called ChatGPT.
La Repubblica, 01 January 1970
ChatGpt, Dall-e and the others will impose themselves in our world, improving it. We just have to learn to control it. Here's how explains Mariarosaria Taddeo.
ABC News, 26 February 2023
ChatGPT is a controversial new language assistant powered by AI. It can write essays, do coding and even structure complex research briefs, all in a matter of seconds.