Cailean is a DPhil Candidate in Social Data Science, whose research interests concern the political economy of open source software (OSS) and the digital commons. His doctoral thesis focuses on why and how companies collaborate on the development of OSS, with a focus on the emergent field of open source artificial intelligence (AI). During the 2023-2024 academic year, he was a visiting researcher at the OSS Data Analytics Lab at Peking University.
Cailean’s DPhil research is funded by the Economic & Social Research Council. Alongside his DPhil, Cailean is a Researcher at the Linux Foundation; and prior to his DPhil, Cailean worked in AI policy as the International Policy Lead at the UK Government’s Centre for Data Ethics & Innovation. Beyond his research, Cailean is interested in public interest computing and learning languages.
Open source software; digital commons; social computing; computer-supported cooperative work; computational social science; machine learning; artificial intelligence; political economy of technology.
27 October 2023
The OII is leading the debate on Artificial Intelligence. Generative AI has been a key area of interest for faculty, researchers and students for many years. This article brings together some of this work to date and highlights forthcoming work.
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Associate Professor of Engineering Science, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Xiaowen Dong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science, where he is an academic member of both the Machine Learning Research Group and the Oxford-Man Institute.
Professor of Internet Geography
Mark Graham is an economic geographer. His research focuses on digital labour, the gig economy, and digital inequalities. He is the author, most recently, of Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
