A new paper from Dr Roxana Radu and Dr Luc Rocher @rocher.lc looks at how using AI in drafting, editing and refining academic writing affects credit, responsibility, and visibility. Read the paper 👉 ow.ly/K5k650Y9QNW

Join us for a talk on how “green” and “smart” tech transitions can reproduce extraction, dependency, and imperial capitalism. From the Bog to the Cloud links land struggles, AI policy, and climate politics in Ireland. 🎤 Patrick Brodie (UCD) 🗓️ Wed 11 Feb | 13:30–14:30 GMT 🔗 Register bit.ly/4alNGDr

ICYMI: Where is AI taking us? Read @carlbfrey.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk's latest insights in this @nytimes.com opinion piece featuring leading thinkers in the AI space. Read the full article here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New project to advance global child online safety sees Dr Vicki Nash, @oii.ox.ac.uk collaborating with the @blavatnikschool.bsky.social to address how to safeguard children in online environments. More below.

@hiigberlin.bsky.social @socsci.ox.ac.uk @oii.ox.ac.uk @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social @algorithmwatch.org

"It is simple for companies to take your work and train a model to do your job. It is comparatively difficult for you to protect your work in the first place" My interview with the BBC and Kerena Cobbina on the need for laws to protect worker rights. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happening tomorrow! Join us online to hear from @penney.bsky.social exploring key themes from his new book, ‘Chilling effects: repression, conformity and power in the digital age’. Tuesday 3 February, 12.00-13.00 GMT. Register here: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Gracias al equipo de @rtvenoticias.rtve.es por invitarme a hablar hoy sobre la sostenibilidad de los centros de datos y de la inteligencia artificial. En especial a Lorenzo Milà por dirigir tan bien el debate. Un placer haber participado en esta conversación de la televisión pública española.

Great to see @swachter.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk evidence on risks of generative AI being cited in the Treasury Committee report on Artificial Intelligence in financial services. Download the full report: committees.parliament.uk/publications...

🤖 KI ist eine Blackbox – aber @swachter.bsky.social hter.bsky.social bringt Licht ins Dunkel. Im Podcast „Die Boss“ erklärt die Humboldt-Professorin, warum der Begriff „Künstliche Intelligenz“ irreführend ist und wo sie Chancen und Risiken aktueller Modelle sieht. 🎧 plus.rtl.de/podcast/die-...

ICYMI: Writing for The Conversation, Prof @helenmargetts.bsky.social, @oii.ox.ac.uk, @lsedatascience.bsky.social and Prof Cosmina Dorobantu explore how free‑speech claims are used to sidestep a recurring problem: sexual content taking over new technologies, legal or not.

Applications for the #OIISDP close on Monday! ICYMI, the Summer Doctoral Programme is the chance for up to 30 doctoral students to spend 2 weeks studying at Oxford in July. More here: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/study/summer...

Catch up on the winter issue of our newsletter here: newsletters.socsci.ox.ac.uk/q/11mmLlK34g... It features a message from new OII Director Dr Scott Hale, updates on the latest happenings at the department, and a glimpse of the impact our community creates through its research.

Missed our latest episode of "The Human Interface" podcast? Dr Robert Prey (OII) + Dr Seonok Lee unpack how platforms are reshaping music, and why it matters beyond the music industry. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The OII's DPhil candidate Lisa Klaassen argues that America is running the wrong AI race, fixated on frontier AI models, while the real race is deploying AI at scale—where China’s industrial strength and public trust give it a leg up. Read more: nationalinterest.org/blog/techlan...

AI users aren’t all the same. A new study by Christoph Gerling (HIIG), Timm Teubner (@tuberlin.bsky.social) & Fabian Braesemann (@oii.ox.ac.uk) finds four #ChatGPT adopter types: from enthusiasts to efficiency-driven pragmatists to cautious & privacy-focused users. Which one are you? 👇 Read study👇

Chapter 3: @helenmargetts.bsky.social & Cosmina Dorobantu on how CSS can improve public policymaking, from better detection and prediction to ethical, accountable use of AI in government. A powerful case for impact beyond academia. doi.org/10.4337/9781... @oii.ox.ac.uk @lsedatascience.bsky.social

NEW: Oxford University has been named Europe’s top university by QS Europe University Rankings. We came top in academic reputation, employer reputation, international research network and employment outcomes. Find out more ⬇️

New! How can I use AI to raise my salary? Listen to the latest episode of the @oxfordsparks.bsky.social Big Questions podcast with special guest Dr Fabian Stephany, Departmental Lecturer in AI & Work, @oii.ox.ac.uk.

📢 Policy professionals: The Oxford Briefing is back tomorrow! Drawing on research from across all University divisions, we highlight policy-relevant evidence, expert analysis and practical opportunities to engage with researchers working on many of the UK’s most pressing strategic questions.

‼️New article out "Thirsty Forests and Expansive Droughts: The Environmental Impacts of Data Centers in Latin America" where we investigate the feral effects of cloud industry's compensatory projects to mitigate environmental impacts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

News alert! A new international study from @hiigberlin.bsky.social, @tuberlin.bsky.social and @oii.ox.ac.uk challenges the “one size fits all” view of AI adoption and identifies four distinct types of early ChatGPT users with different motivations and concerns. Find out more: bit.ly/3LSJOBO 1/3

Congratulations to Johanna Barop, DPhil student, @oii.ox.ac.uk selected as an AI@Work Awardee by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social. The award will help support Johanna’s ongoing research into worker representation and AI adoption. Find out more about the awards: www.schmidtsciences.org/schmidt-scie...

🎉 Registration now open: Social Sciences Impact Conference 2026 @ox.ac.uk 📅 24–25 March 📍 St Anne’s College 🔎 Impact in Motion: Navigating Uncertainty, Creating Change Join researchers, policy makers and practitioners shaping impact in the social sciences. 👉 www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/impact-confe...

'This is a generation for whom the mobile phone is a gateway to self-expression and companionship, and simply removing the apps and tools used for these purposes will not immediately lead to a re-embracing of analogue childhood.' Read more from @oii.ox.ac.uk's Prof Victoria Nash ⬇️

"Our best baseline estimate is that roughly 28,000 more jobs for translators would’ve been added in the absence of machine translation," says Dr @carlbfrey.bsky.social in @cnn.com’s new article on how AI is reshaping language work. Read more: edition.cnn.com/2026/01/23/t...

🚨 New paper out in @pnasnexus.org We show how skewed social media data can still be used to reliably estimate unemployment, not just nationally but down to the city level. 📈 doi.org/10.1093/pnas... 1/N

New coverage from The Times on research co-authored by Prof. @geoplace.bsky.social highlights how ChatGPT demonstrates biased outputs, reflecting long-standing inequalities embedded in AI training data. Read more: www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

Could you be joining us in Oxford this summer? There's just one week left to apply to the Summer Doctoral Programme at the OII from 13th-24th July 2026! Learn more here: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/study/summer... Questions? Reach out to us at [email protected].

ICYMI: OII Visiting Policy Fellow Rebecca Razavi presented research conducted with the Tech Policy Design Institute (TPDi) and OII researchers, which suggests that the debate around AI sovereignty can be better understood for policymaking as AI agency. Recording: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Following legislation introduced by the Australian government to stop young people from using major social media services, the OII's Dr Vicki Nash weighs in on whether the under-16 social media ban is the right course of action: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...

How will the AI Revolution impact on the ways that MPs work? The OII's Professor @katyahe.bsky.social will be speaking alongside fellow panelists at the the St Antony's College Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship seminar on Monday 26 January. Register here: www.sant.ox.ac.uk/research/vis...

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: The OII podcast, "The Human Interface," is back for Season 2, kicking off with Dr @robertprey.bsky.social + Dr Seonok Lee from the University of Groningen, who explore how streaming, social platforms and AI are reshaping music. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

NEW: The OII's DPhil student Ben Bariach writes for Noema Magazine on world models, epistemology and society, previewing his ongoing research on the philosophy and governance of frontier AI at Oxford. www.noemamag.com/when-ai-huma...

New coverage from @euronews.com on Prof. @geoplace.bsky.social's research, which finds that answers from OpenAI’s ChatGPT favour wealthy, Western countries and sideline much of the Global South. Read more: www.euronews.com/next/2026/01...

ICYMI: Big Tech’s ‘kill zones’ threaten Europe’s digital sovereignty, researchers warn. Read Dr Fabian Braesemann, @oii.ox.ac.uk's blog exploring how tech giants’ acquisition strategies mirror those of elite football clubs and why this matters for Europe’s digital sovereignty: bit.ly/4r9lQRQ

Looking forward to presenting some of our recent research tomorrow in london!

Latest roundup of AI news from @fortune.com highlights new research from @oii.ox.ac.uk and the @universityofky.bsky.social researchers Francisco W. Kerche, Matt Zook and @geoplace.bsky.social which shows how ChatGPT amplifies global inequalities. fortune.com/2026/01/20/d...

New research from @oii.ox.ac.uk and @universityofky.bsky.social finds that ChatGPT systematically favors wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from “Where are people more beautiful?” to “Which country is safer?” Learn more: https://bit.ly/4sKThf3

Happening tomorrow! Join us online to hear from @oii.ox.ac.uk Visiting Policy Fellow Rebecca Razavi as she discusses how national AI capability and dependency can be systematically assessed in an increasingly interconnected AI ecosystem. Register today! bit.ly/45Gz00n

New study from researchers at @oii.ox.ac.uk and the University of Kentucky finds that ChatGPT reproduces global biases. For example, the AI tool claims US states Minnesota, Vermont and New Hampshire are rated as have a more effective democracy than other US states. 1/4

New study from @oii.ox.ac.uk and the University of Kentucky sheds light on how bias manifests in ChatGPT outputs. For example, London boroughs Bloomsbury, Hampstead and the City of London are rated as having the smartest people with Croydon, Tottenham and Hillingdon rated the lowest. 1/2

“ChatGPT isn't an accurate representation of the world. It rather just reflects and repeats the enormous biases within its training data” @geoplace.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk speaking to @dailymail.co.uk about his new co-authored study with University of Kentucky. www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

Our new paper audits ChatGPT’s place-based judgements using 20 million pairwise comparisons. We find systematic geographic biases in how places are described and evaluated. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (authors: Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham)

New @oii.ox.ac.uk and University of Kentucky study shows how ChatGPT amplifies global inequalities, with LLMs reflecting historic biases in training data. With thanks to @telegraph.co.uk for sharing the study. @geoplace.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

News alert! New study from @oii.ox.ac.uk and the University of Kentucky finds that ChatGPT amplifies global inequalities. Researchers find that large language models reflect historic biases in the data sets they learn from whilst shaping how people see the world. More here: bit.ly/4bF4K9B 1/4

ICYMI: Interesting piece by @thetimes.com on the effectiveness of LinkedIn as a marketing tool for growing your business with new commentary from Dr Fabian Braesemann, @oii.ox.ac.uk. More: www.thetimes.com/business/com...

Just two weeks to go to submit your application for the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social and @oii.ox.ac.uk Summer Doctoral Programme 2026. Join us for a fantastic fortnight of study, collaboration and mentorship whilst building lifelong connections. Apply today! www.oii.ox.ac.uk/study/summer...

Happening tomorrow! Join us online or in-person to hear Dr Fabian Stephany @oii.ox.ac.uk share his latest research on AI skills and jobhunting. Tuesday 20 January 12.00-13.00 GMT. Find out more and book your place today! www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

ICYMI: The OII's Director @computermacgyver.bsky.social Hale spoke to BBC Radio Oxford about who is responsible for regulating technology, and why healthy scepticism is essential as AI becomes even more embedded in our lives. Skip to 1h50 and 2h50 to hear Scott's POV: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...