About

Florence Enock is a Senior Research Fellow in AI and Social Cognition at the Oxford Internet Institute. She is a social psychologist whose research combines large-scale surveys and behavioural experiments to understand public experiences with AI, online harms, and safety interventions. Her current work is funded by the AI Security Institute and uses a longitudinal randomised controlled trial to examine how prolonged interaction with large language models shapes people’s perceptions, expectations and evaluations of others. She also works on a BA/Leverhulme funded project which examines social biases in reporting hate and abuse online.

Prior to joining the OII, Florence was a Senior Research Associate in Online Safety at The Alan Turing Institute, and before that she held a postdoctoral position at the University of York studying the role of dehumanization in social attitudes and behaviours. She completed her DPhil in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford in 2018, where she researched the cognitive and neural underpinnings of intergroup biases.

Research Interests

Social cognition, human–AI interaction, AI safety, online safety, human behaviour, public attitudes, behavioural experiments

Positions at the OII

• Senior Research Fellow, January 2026 -