Fabian Stephany is a Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford, a Research Affiliate at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin and a Fellow at the Brussels-based Think Tank Bruegel. Leading the SkillScale Project, Fabian investigates the emergence of new skills and sustainability of novel occupations in times of technological disruption.
He is a co-creator of the Online Labour Observatory – a digital data hub, hosted by the OII and the International Labour Organisation, for researchers, policy makers, journalists, and the public interested in online platform work. His research has been published in leading academic journals and was covered by Washington Post, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Statesman, Nikkei Asia, and other popular media around the world.
Fabian holds a PhD and degrees in Economics and Social Sciences from different European institutions, including Universitá Bocconi Milan and University of Cambridge. As an Economist and Senior Data Scientist, Fabian has been working in the private sector and for various actors in the international policy landscape, such as the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank or the OECD in Paris.
Future of Work, Internet Economics, Network Science, Online Gig Economy, Platform Economy
This programme supports research in the sphere of AI & Work.
This project explores how the analysis of online generated labour market data can help us understand the relevance of new skills and sustainability of novel occupations.
AI technologies are increasingly being promoted to automate or augment work in the education sector. With the growth of these technologies, this project asks what tasks and skills are being affected by the adoption of AI in the education sector.
13 September 2023
In this new video, Dr Fabian Stephany, OII explores the future of work and AI. He explains to us why the demand for certain occupations is skyrocketing not despite - but because of - AI.
1 June 2023
Academics from the Oxford Internet Institute visited Brussels to lead a conversation with EU-based stakeholders in policy and industry to discuss whether artificial intelligence (AI) will be a complement or substitute for human work.
17 May 2023
AI technologies are demonstrating their increasingly powerful capabilities, sparking fears of mass unemployment. But we are well-advised to remember that today’s AI-ruled workplaces are craving for human labour.
30 January 2023
Remote work is here to stay. But while many of us could work from "anywhere", the urbanisation of digital work continues. Cities are becoming the mega-hubs for online-mediated work. But what will this change bring to our cities and the rural regions
FT, 19 September 2023
Article highlights how a range of apps now link to peoples' bank accounts to assist with them spending, saving, debts and more, with expert commentary from Dr Fabian Stephany, OII.
The Conversation, 03 July 2023
In the evolving relationship between technology and society, humans have shown themselves to be incredibly adaptable. Dr Fabian Stephany and Dr Johann Laux share their insights on LLMs and the future of AI with The Conversation.
African Business, 16 March 2023
Dr Stephany speaks about the chances and challenges of gig worker in Africa.
This course introduces students to conceptual and methodological aspects of social science research methods, including both quantitative and qualitative methods.
This course teaches the essentials of programming in Python, using the language to access data from a diverse variety of sources on the social web, and transforming this material into datasets which are amenable to traditional social science analysis.
