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.
As AI reshapes economies and societies, governments worldwide face a critical question: how can they govern effectively in an AI-driven world?
This question has two components:
The Governing in the Age of AI group (GAIA) seeks to advance the science of governing in the age of AI, with a focus on:
GAIA’s research explores these issues from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including political science, economics, social data science, computer science, public policy and administration.
The findings generate actionable insights for policymakers and practitioners and tackle enduring policy challenges, such as equity, productivity and economic growth.
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Kobi is a PhD candidate in Social Data Science and Clarendon Scholar at the OII. Kobi’s doctoral research evaluates the capabilities of artificial intelligence systems to influence human attitudes, behaviour, and cognition.
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Chloe is a Clarendon Scholar researching digital government innovation. She holds an MPhil in Public Policy from the University of Cambridge and has held roles in the government, private and third sectors focussed on civil service reform.
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Lisa-Maria Neudert is a DPhil Student researching platform governance and regulation in response to mis/disinformation.
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Başak is a PhD student in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research lies at the intersection of human-AI interaction, political science, communication and computational linguistics.
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Cassidy Bereskin is a PhD researcher and Clarendon Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute specialising in the efficacy of content disclosure interventions for combatting synthetic visual disinformation.
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Nathan researches the state in an age of digital era government. He draws on his BA at Cambridge, where he focused on the history of technology and temporality, and his experience at start-ups and a government-focused technology company.
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Callum’s research examines disinformation policy responses, AI, memes, and the social role of digital platforms. He previously worked on AI and cyber policy for the Australian government, and is attending Oxford as a Ramsay Scholar.
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Yasmeena is a Clarendon Scholar studying the ideological underpinnings of Silicon Valley. She holds a B.S. in Symbolic Systems (Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence) from Stanford University.
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Ryan’s research focusses on the spread of hateful content across the Internet, especially regarding how generative AI can be misused by bad actors to introduce extremist ideas into the mainstream.
This project seeks to understand how citizens listen and speak to public institutions, and how alternative AI-based models and framing might encourage democratic communication.
This project seeks to quantify trends and changes in the volatility of public opinion before and after widespread use of social media, and to study how social information can drive public opinion.
This project, and the resulting report, provides a first step in the assessment of data financing as a mechanism for social good in the data economy.
