
Programme on the Governance of Emerging Technologies
This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.
Chris Russell has been a research affiliate at OII and a member of the Governance of Emerging Technology programme since 2019, where he works primarily on algorithmic fairness and Explainable AI. His work on explainability (with Sandra Wachter and Brent Mittelstadt of the OII) is cited in the guidelines to the GDPR and forms part of the TensorFlow “What-if tool”. He was one of the first researchers to propose the use of causal models in reasoning about fairness (namely Counterfactual Fairness), and continues to work extensively on computer vision. Dr Russell has worked at AWS since 2020. Prior to this, he was a Group Leader in Safe and Ethical AI at the Alan Turing Institute, and a Reader in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of Surrey.
Algorithmic Fairness, Explainable AI, machine learning, computer vision.
This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.
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 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
21 April 2021
A new method to detect discrimination in AI and machine learning systems created by academics at Oxford Internet Institute, has been implemented by Amazon in their bias toolkit, ‘Amazon SageMaker Clarify’, for use by Amazon Web Services customers.
8 March 2021
Leading experts in ethics and law from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) believe that the ways AI systems are commonly designed to measure bias and fairness clash with the fundamental aims of EU non-discrimination law.
16 December 2019
The Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford, is undertaking a new research programme exploring the Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET).
15 January 2018