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    Jun 10
    Event alert! Looking forward to hosting Dr Ignacio Gallego, @uc3m & Prof Tony Ageh, @tcddublin for their @oiioxford talk, ‘Digital public service infrastructures for culture: is a non-commercial mandate possible? The dotPublic case study.’ Thursday 18 June, 16.00-17.00 BST 1/2
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    Sep 19, 2024
    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)
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    Oct 30, 2018
    “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
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    Oct 30, 2018
    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
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    Jul 28, 2020
    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/
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    Jan 13, 2021
    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…
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    Dec 15, 2021
    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…
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    May 25, 2021
    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…
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    Apr 18, 2018
    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
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    Dec 6, 2021
    ‘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
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    Jun 19, 2017
    New @polbots report: computational propaganda in US, China, Russia, Poland, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Ukraine, Taiwan comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/2017/06/19/com…
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    Jul 12, 2024
    "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:
    A visitor touches a humanoid robot hand on display at an AI exhibition booth during the The World Artificial Intelligence Conference & High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, in Shanghai China, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
    Opinion: What's behind the AI boom? Exploited humans
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    Jul 17, 2020
    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.
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    Apr 11, 2019
    👏👏👏 Katie Bouman: The woman behind the first black hole image
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    Katie Bouman: The woman behind the first black hole image
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