Will is a part-time DPhil student in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences at the OII.
Will’s research focuses on examining the safety impacts of fine-tuning on generative models, and has previously published work on topics across AI ethics, safety and governance.
Will additionally leads the Responsibility Product Management team within Google DeepMind, having previously led various safety governance and evaluations teams within the organization.
This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.
20 June 2025
OII researchers are set to attend the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT) 2025.
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.
Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast, 20 May 2025
A new study reveals nearly 35,000 publicly downloadable AI models capable of generating deepfake pornography—often targeting women and celebrities.
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.
