Paul is a Departmental Lecturer at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and an Associate Member of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. His work is located at the intersection of natural language processing (NLP) and the social sciences.
In his current research, Paul focuses on evaluating and improving the safety of large language models (LLMs) as well as studying their societal impacts. For his recent work in this area, he won an Outstanding Paper Award at ACL, the top NLP conference, and a Best Paper Award at NeurIPS, the top AI conference.
Before joining the OII as Lecturer, Paul was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bocconi University, working with Prof Dirk Hovy and the MilaNLP lab. Paul also holds a DPhil from the OII, where he was supervised by Prof Helen Margetts and Prof Janet Pierrehumbert. During his DPhil, Paul co-founded a start-up building AI tools for content moderation, which was acquired by another large online safety company in 2023.
Large language models, societal impacts of AI, AI alignment, AI safety
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.
13 August 2021
AI content moderation systems have the potential to relieve the burden of tackling online hate. But the use of emojis to express hate can outpace what AI systems can understand.
The Times, 21 March 2023
Google is releasing Bard, its artificial intelligence chatbot, to the public as it faces up to the challenge presented by ChatGPT to its dominance in web searches.
The Times, 16 March 2023
It passes exams with flying colours, can code an entire website based on just a drawing - and it's becoming self-aware...
Sky News, 13 August 2021
Harmful posts can end up being missed altogether while acceptable posts are mislabelled as offensive, according to the Oxford Internet Institute. frontpage-pressSky NewsHannah Rose Kirk|Dr Scott A. Hale|Bertram Vidgen|Paul Röttger
Professor of Language Modelling, Oxford e-Research Centre, Dept. of Engineering Science., University of Oxford
Professor Pierrehumbert's work has been widely influential in speech technology, psycholinguistics, and theories of language form and meaning.
Professor of Society and the Internet
Helen Margetts is Professor of Society and the Internet, a political scientist specialising in digital government and politics. She was Director of the OII from 2011-18. She is a Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College.
