Oxford Internet Institute relocates to the new Schwarzman Centre
30 September 2025
The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) has moved to its new home in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
New report calls for decisive government action to help build public trust in AI
24 September 2025
A new paper from the Tony Blair Institute for Change, featuring a guest contribution from the OII’s Professor Helen Margetts, calls for government action to build better public trust in AI.
Lofred Madzou appointed to OII Advisory Board
16 September 2025
The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford is delighted to announce the appointment of Lofred Madzou to its Advisory Board.
In memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, CH, DBE, OBE
12 August 2025
The OII pays tribute to its founding donor Dame Stephanie Shirley, CH, DBE, OBE.
AI is not an agent – AI is a tool
6 August 2025
Professor Anoush Margaryan, Visiting Research Fellow at the OII considers how we should frame AI: competitor, collaborator, or tool?
OII researchers will address NLP model inequalities at ACL 2025
28 July 2025
Researchers including DPhil students from the Oxford Internet Institute will present new research and share recent findings at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Vienna.
Beyond Safety: The Digital Environment We Owe Children
25 July 2025
Discussions around child internet safety often assume a hostile online environment, focusing on harm prevention. OII VPF Rony Yuria argues that redesigning the online environment itself will help make safety a natural outcome.
Consequences of a skewed discourse around generative AI and elections
23 July 2025
Dr Felix Simon and Dr Sacha Altay assess the evidence and discourse around generative AI and elections.
#OIIBeyondtheBooks Gives a Glimpse of Student Life at the OII and Beyond
17 July 2025
From unique findings in niche research topics, commonly misunderstood concepts in AI and technology, and what it’s like to be a theologian in an department, OII students share all.
The invisible handshake: How friends of friends become friends on social media
15 July 2025
New research from the Oxford Internet Institute and MIT Sloan School of Management research shows that having shared connections directly contributes to social media users connecting with one another online.
LLMs in medicine require new forms of risk management, according to Oxford researchers
7 July 2025
Whether it is merely long-term hype or near-term reality, Large Language Models (LLMs) in medicine are well-positioned to engage with a wide range of medical tasks and be used for medical research purposes.
How can we solve the housing crisis with better data?
4 July 2025
Dr Fabian Braesemann explores how rental levels in Vienna responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and asks what we can learn from Vienna to solve the global housing crisis.