With Franziska Sofia Hafner
A new study from Oxford Internet Institute researchers finds that training chatbots to sound warmer makes them up to 30% less accurate, and 40% more likely to validate users' false beliefs.
With Prof Maja Hojer Bruun
Public debates often cast AI as a threat to professional expertise, risking deskilling & redundancy, or a technical fix that enhances efficiency & liberates time. In this talk, I argue that expertise is learned practice that is continuously evolving
With Ziyu Deng
The Oxford Internet Institute's DPhil student Ziyu Deng explores how the manosphere sets standards that many men can’t realistically reach, and why ‘arrival’ never quite comes.
With Professor Greg Taylor and Tania Van Den Brande
This episode of the OII’s The Human Interface podcast explores how dominant tech giants shape digital markets, affecting consumers, businesses, and innovation—and how regulators aim to keep their power in check.
With Dr Fabian Stephany
Dr Fabian Stephany, Departmental Research Lecturer, Oxford Internet Institute, shares his insights on AI and the changing demand for skills in the creative, advertising, and marketing industries.
With Ayca Deniz Ergin and Ashly Jiju
This episode pulls back the curtain on the often-invisible human workforce powering AI, from content moderation to data labelling, and explores why global standards in AI supply chains must be enforced to protect worker safety.
With Dr Mykola Makhortykh and Maryna Sydorova
Dr Mayhortykh and Sydorova will discuss results from a series of studies in which we explored how text- and image-generative AI applications represent different aspects of Russia's war in Ukraine.
With Matt Sharpe
In this talk, Matt presents findings from the largest study of digital habits to date, combining survey responses from nearly 7,000 people with fine-grained tracking of their actual app usage
With Dr Johann Laux, Ali Shah, and Maxine Setiawan
The evolving role of human oversight of AI systems in the workplace and beyond.
With Dr Eugenia Stamboliev
This talk will introduce the concept of democratic trustworthiness of AI, shifting the focus from thinking about AI users to protecting citizens; and from output expectations to protected interests within AI systems
With Dr Patrick Brodie
This talk will articulate Ireland's twin transition and AI industrial policy, offering a critique of dependent models of development and proposing an anti-imperialist approach to environmental politics
OII DPhil student Thomas Hakman explores why RuneScape remains popular, showing how player freedom, mastery, and community satisfy core psychological needs despite the game’s age.