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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…
- "We found that the rise of AI is being powered by data annotators, content moderators, machine learning engineers, data center technicians, writers and artists." Read more about the exploited humans behind AI's boom from OII's @geoplace in @latimes: latimes.com/opinion/story/…
- 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
