Dr. Keegan McBride is an expert on topics such as digital government, digital innovation, the use of AI in the public sector, digital well-being and happiness, and government interoperability and data exchange. He is an active member of the scholarly community, participating in several high-level digital government focused conferences and publishing in leading peer-reviewed digital government focused journals. In his research he aims to develop an understanding about the future trajectory of the state in the digital age by exploring the complex and co-evolutionary relationships between technology, society, and the state.
Outside of these academic interests, Keegan is actively working with NGOs, particularly those that focus on reimagining a better, open, human-centric, and equitable digital future, he can additionally be found consulting and working with governments and private sector organizations on the topic of governmental digitalization. Keegan received an MSc in e-Governance Technologies and Services and completed his doctoral studies in public administration –both at the Tallinn University of Technology in Tallinn, Estonia.
Interoperability, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence in the public sector, digital innovation, open government data, digital government, digital transformation, co-creation of public services, procurement of innovation, digital wellbeing.
This programme supports research on AI, Government and Policy.
As governments digitalize, their bureaucratic structures are increasingly encountering AI. This project explores what happens next by asking how the structures of public sector bureaucracies transform when exposed to new AI-based systems.
8 November 2023
In their new blog, OII alumna Barani Maung Maung and Dr Keegan McBride, discuss how the emerging risks associated with Generative AI systems have higher negative potential in countries where non-dominant global language are spoken.
28 October 2023
The Oxford Internet Institute convened a panel of experts to debate the UK’s role in the development and regulation of the technology at Keble College, Oxford.
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.
29 September 2023
The United Kingdom is organising an Artificial Intelligence Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in November, aiming to develop a shared global understanding of the risks that may emerge from powerful new Foundation Models.
Fast Company, 07 November 2023
Using the corpus of X posts as training data sounds like a good idea—until you look at the tone of conversation on the social platform.
Evening Standard, 01 November 2023
AI leaders are hoping the government will tone down its focus on extreme scenarios
Wired, 23 October 2023
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s global summit on AI governance will focus on extreme scenarios of algorithms causing harm. Many British AI experts would rather he focus on near-term problems.
This option course will approach the study of government and politics through the lens of data science.
