OII | Ethics

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.

Related Publications

The Ethics of Biomedical Big Data

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.

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Related Projects

Trustworthiness Auditing for AI

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.

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Explaining black-box decisions

This project transforms the concept of counterfactual explanations into a practically useful tool for explaining automated black-box decisions.

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A Right to Reasonable Inferences in Advertising and Financial Services

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

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Related Microsites

OxCAIGG

The goal of the Oxford Commission on AI and Good Governance is to develop principles and practical policy recommendations, to improve the use of AI in democratic governance around the world.

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Related News

Professor Sandra Wachter wins CogX Award

12 September 2023

Professor Sandra Wachter has been named as the winner of the CogX Outstanding Achievement & Research Award 2023, in the AI Ethics category.

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Leading digital ethics expert awarded Full Professor status

8 September 2023

Mariarosaria Taddeo has been awarded the title of Professor of Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies in recognition of her exceptional contribution to research into the ethical, legal, and social implications of digital technologies.

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European Commission proceeds conservatively on gatekeepers, says OII expert

6 September 2023

Professor Greg Taylor, Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, sets out his view on the European Commission’s latest announcement under the Digital Markets Act.

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The Solution to Digital Censorship Might Be Renewed Focus on Federalism

17 August 2023

Rather than looking to decentralization of technology alone, we should instead ask what configurations of technology mirror real-world arrangements of decision-making authority that have led to meaningful checks and balances.

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Press Coverage

AI used to target kids with disinformation

Newsround, 14 September 2023

YouTube channels that use AI to make videos containing false "scientific" information are being recommended to children as "educational content".

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BBC Report: Fake videos on YouTube Kids

BBC Radio 5 Live, 14 September 2023

It's very important we recognise this as a risk and we increasingly try and focus on training children to recognise this sort of content and to either avoid it or just not believe it.

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Financial Times, 20 August 2023

Huw Roberts, a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute, argues that excluding China from the UK’s artificial intelligence summit to be held in early November would be a ‘huge mistake'.

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