The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) is a multidisciplinary department of the University of Oxford that specialises in the social science aspects of the Internet. OII conducts research in a number of areas including social data science and digital economies, and is known for its studies on Internet geography and Wikipedia. OII also offers Master and doctoral degree programmes and contributes to policy-making.
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https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/governance-of-emerging-technologies/
OII and more precisely its Governance of Emerging Technologies programme, primarily revolve around research on the legal, ethical, and social implications of artificial intelligence (AI). In addition to reports and publications on AI, OII also contributes to the global discussion through the organisation of events and calls for papers.
In July 2019, OII started a project entitled A Right To Reasonable Inferences In Advertising And Financial Services that explores the application of the ‘right to reasonable interference’ in the context of sensitive information gathered by big data analytics and AI, including click and browse patterns. The project principally focuses on the application, i.e., the opportunities and challenges, of the ‘right to reasonable interference’ in areas of high risk in the field of advertising and financial services. In a separate study but within the same area, OII is researching how the current legal and regulatory mechanisms offer limited protection to interferences in data protection law and why the ‘right to reasonable interference’ could fill the gap. OII is also involved in the following projects:
- Explaining Black-Box Decisions explores how counterfactual explanations could be employed to produce explanations to users and those affected by automated decision-making.
- Ethical Auditing For Automated Decision-Making seeks to define the preconditions for ethical auditing of automated decision-making systems. Among other things, it intends to do so by establishing a taxonomy of potential harm and identifying the normative and technical limitations on the design of ethical auditing for automated decision-making systems.
As a contributor to the global discussion on AI, OII frequently organises training and events that explore AI and good governance, the complex relationship between AI and religion, as well as the failure of autonomous systems. Moreover, OII is a member of the Partnership on AI, an international coalition focused on promoting responsible use of AI.
- Explores issues related to accountability and explainability of emerging technologies such as AI; data protection and privacy in the context of AI and interfacial analytics; bias and fairness of automated systems and data.