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.
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.
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.
Based on a case-study analysis of bias in the Chicago Crime Prediction Algorithm, this project explores the extent to which evidence of algorithmic bias can be used to guide policy responses to the societal disparities replicated in these tools.
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.
31 March 2025
The OII's Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo explores the digitalisation of defence and its intersection with liberal democratic values.
10 March 2025
Meta recently announced its plan to build the world’s longest submarine cable system. The OII’s Professor Vili Lehdonvirta and DPhil candidate Anniki Mikelsaar ask what geopolitical and economic significance this new project may have.
3 February 2025
In Conversation with Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo, Oxford Internet Institute discussing the ethics of AI in defence.
21 January 2025
With the rapid adoption of AI by children and adolescents using digital devices to access the internet and social media, OII experts call for a clear framework for AI research considering the impact on young people and their mental health.
New York Times, 08 May 2025
An avatar of the long-dead British novelist is “teaching” an online writing course. But do we want to learn from a digital prosthetic built by artificial intelligence?
New Scientist, 07 May 2025
The makers of an AI model called Foresight say it could help predict disease or hospitalisation rates, but others have expressed concern about the fact it is trained on millions of health records.
Nature, 06 May 2025
Researchers fed an artificial-intelligence model called Foresight with anonymized data from a huge swathe of patients in England’s National Health Service.
