Projects

Programme on Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age

This programme addresses the assumptions that the overall mental well-being of young people is undergoing a pronounced period of decline and that digital technologies might be driving this trend.

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Programme on Democracy and Technology

DemTech investigates the use of algorithms, automation, and computational propaganda in public life.

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Programme on the Governance of Emerging Technologies

This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.

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Trustworthiness Auditing for AI

This project will evaluate the effectiveness of accountability tools addressing explainability, bias, and fairness in AI. A ‘trustworthiness auditing meta-toolkit’ will be developed and validated via case studies in healthcare and open science.

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Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media

In this three-year programme researchers will examine the interplay between systematic misinformation campaigns, news coverage, and increasingly important social media platforms for public understanding of science and technological innovation.

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A Fairwork Foundation: Towards fair work in the platform economy

The Fairwork Foundation will certify online labour platforms, using leverage from workers, consumers, and platforms to improve the welfare and job quality of digital workers.

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Fairwork United States

This project will examine how the growth of gig work in the United States can contribute to growing inequalities, and develop a framework for understanding best practice for fairer work standards.

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Building an Internet for the Social Good

This project will examine the role of digital media in improving social understanding, with a particular focus on how trust can develop in the shared understanding of history and climate change.

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A Multimodal COVID-19 Database for Research

The Oxford COVID-19 Project aims to increase our understanding of COVID-19 and elaborate possible strategies to reduce the impact on the society through the combined power of Statistical, Mathematical Modelling and Machine Learning techniques.

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DomesticAI: AI’s Potential to transform unpaid domestic work in the UK and Japan

This project explores the introduction of AI technologies to unpaid domestic work and the potential benefits and vulnerabilities related to this.

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Fairwork in Ghana

The Fairwork project aims to ameliorate working conditions by closely engaging with and supporting platforms to improve their policies. This project aims to implement the established methodology and approach of Fairwork in Ghana.

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Fairwork for AI

Drawing on the five OECD principles for responsible stewardship of trustworthy AI, this project proposes developing a set of accountability mechanisms to ensure AI systems foster fairer working conditions.

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