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- Congratulations to Yung Au on completing her DPhil viva! Her thesis is titled: Selling Machine Sentries: The Colonial Commodification of Policing through Surveillance Technologies Examiners: Prof Laleh Khalili (Exeter) & Dr Seeta Gangadhara (LSE)
- “Machine learning only works if the future looks like the past - however, people change over time. You can’t rob people from being the exception to the rule. You are more than the data you leave behind.” @SandraWachter5 #OIILondon
- We are thrilled to announce that Dr Safiya Noble will be joining the OII as a Senior Research Fellow in 2019! Dr Noble's work on the impacts of digital media, and its intersection with gender, race, and culture, is world-leading. Read on: bit.ly/2EOE88E @safiyanoble
- Today we launch the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance, to advise world leaders on effective ways to use Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in public administration and governance #OXCAIGG oxcaigg.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/
- Social media manipulation campaigns operate in 81 countries, up from 70 countries in 2019, with global #disinformation being produced on an industrial scale by major governments, PR firms, and political parties. NEW REPORT: comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/posts…
- Congratulations to @Floridi @oiioxford @oxsocsci @UniofOxford named as the most cited philosopher in the world, according to the most recent SCOPUS survey (2020) @DailyNousEditor #Philosophy dailynous.com/2021/11/29/cit…
- New doctor! Congratulations to @C___CS @oiioxford who passed her viva yesterday! Her thesis is titled ‘Changing Minds and Machines: A Case Study of Human Rights Advocacy in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)’ Supervisors @VickiNashOII @ginasue oii.ox.ac.uk/people/corinne…
- Congratulations to OII's Professor Luciano Floridi, who has been nominated as Chair of the Advisory Board of the UK government's new Parliamentary Commission on Technology Ethics! For more information: tech.newstatesman.com/guest-opinion/… #DataEthics #TechNews
- ‘Meta can do better’ Open letter facilitated by @ShuhBillSkee @oiioxford @oxsocsci @UniofOxford calls for Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg to act now on adolescent wellbeing #MetaCanDoBetter bit.ly/31zav6K 1/7
- New @polbots report: computational propaganda in US, China, Russia, Poland, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Ukraine, Taiwan comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/2017/06/19/com…
- New doctor! Congratulations to @benzevenbergen Research Scientist @GoogleAI, formerly @oiioxford DPhil student, with his thesis on “Internet Users as Vulnerable and at-Risk Human Subjects: Reviewing Research Ethics Law for Technical Internet Research” passing earlier this week.
- 👏👏👏 Katie Bouman: The woman behind the first black hole image
