Will is a DPhil student at the OII with an interest in algorithmic fairness, explainability, and wider AI ethics. He currently works in DeepMind’s Ethics team, and was previously a consultant within PwC’s Sustainability & Climate Change team.
This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.
7 May 2025
New Oxford study uncovers explosion of accessible deepfake AI image generation models intended for the creation of non-consensual, sexualised images of women.
6 December 2024
Several researchers and DPhil students from the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, will head to Vancouver for the Thirty-Eighth annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) from 10-15 December 2024.
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.
Cherwell, 14 May 2025
A new study from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) has found a sharp rise in the number of AI tools used to generate deep fake images of identifiable people, primarily targeting women.
Oxford Mail, 07 May 2025
The lead author of a new Oxford University says there is an 'urgent need' for more controls to tackle the rise of deepfakes.
The Times, 07 May 2025
Easy-to-use open source software is to blame for the explosion in programs primarily used to create explicit images of women, researchers suggest
