Ethics in AI
The Institute for Ethics in AI has brought together world-leading philosophers and other experts in the humanities with the technical developers and users of AI in academia, business and government. The ethics and governance of AI is an exceptionally vibrant area of research at Oxford and the Institute is an opportunity to take a bold leap forward from this platform.
Every day brings more examples of the ethical challenges posed by AI, from face recognition to voter profiling, brain machine interfaces to weaponised drones, and the ongoing discourse about how AI will impact employment on a global scale. This is urgent and important work that we intend to promote internationally as well as embedding in our own research and teaching here at Oxford.
Any queries should be directed to aiethics@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Hilary Term 2025 - Term Card
| Week 1 (22nd Jan) | Sara Wahedi (Oxford) | The Ethics of 'Information as Aid': AI, Security, and Innovation in Crisis Regions |
| Week 2 (29th Jan) | Dr Iason Gabriel (Google DeepMind) | A Matter of Principle? AI Alignment as the Fair Treatment of Claims |
| Week 3 (5th Feb) | Dr Alex Grzankowski (UoL) | Benchmarking Intelligence Better |
| Week 4 (12th Feb) | Professor Nathalia Smuha (KU Leuven) | Algorithmic Rule By Law: How Algorithmic Regulation in the Public Sector Erodes the Rules of Law |
| Week 4 (13th Feb) | Professor Ruth Chang (Oxford) | Two Mistakes in AI Design? |
| Week 5 (19th Feb) | Dr Miranda Anderson (Edinburgh) | Fission-Fusion AI: Concepts of Cognition and Ethics in AI |
| Week 6 (26th Feb) | Dr James Kirkpatrick (Oxford) | Generics and Default Reasoning in Large Language Models |
| Week 6 (27th Feb) | Professor Stuart Russell (UoC Berkeley) | Provably Beneficial Artificial Intelligence |
| Week 7 (5th March) | Dr Paul Billingham (Oxford) | Online Public Shaming, the Duties of Social Media Platforms, and the Case for Regulation |
| Week 8 (12th March) | Professor Claudia E. Haupt (Northeastern University) | Generative AI and Medical Advice |
| Week 1 (17th Oct) | Murray Shanahan (ICL) | How to think about Large Language Models |
| Week 1 (16th Oct) | Lily Xu (Oxford) | Algorithmic Decision Making and Participation for Biodiversity Conservation |
| Week 2 (16th October) | Barry Smith (UoL) | Large Language Models: Tools or Colleagues? |
| Week 3 (30th October) | Alexy Karenowska (Oxford) | More, Faster: AI and the Age of Iteration |
| Week 4 (6th Nov) | Dr Jun Zhao (Oxford) | Moral Machines for Children |
| Week 5 (16th October) | Ray Eitel-Porter (Cambridge) | AI Safety: Whose Problem is it Anyway? |
| Week 6 (13th Nov) | Dr Samir Sinha | Will AI Help or Hinder Our Attempts to Promote Healthy Ageing? A Geriatrician's Perspective |
| Week 7 (27th Nov) | Sylvie Delacroix (KCL) | Lostin Conversation? Uncertainty, 'Value-Alignment', and Large Language Models |
| Week 8 (4th Dec) | Johann Wefing, Xiaolan Deng, Madoc Wade | Is AI A Threat to Human Creativity? |
| Week 1 (17th Jan) | Philip Torr (Oxford) | Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar |
| Week 2 (24th Jan) | Aphrodite Papachristodoulou (University of Galway) | Power, Technologies and Migration Control: Rendering the Invisible Visible |
| Week 2 (25th Jan) | Mark Coeckelbergh (Vienna) | AI, Democracy, and the Common Good |
| Week 3 (31st Jan) | Dr David Barnes | AI & the Military: Beyond Autonomous Weapons to Strategic Enterprise Transformation |
| Week 4 (7th Feb) | Professor Jakub Foerster | Opponent-Shaping and Interference in General-Sum Games |
| Week 5 (14th Feb) | Kyle Van Oosterum | Algorithms, Corporations, and Self-Respect |
| Week 6 (21st Feb) | Dr Edmond Awad (Exeter Business School) | Understanding Human Perception of "AI in the wild" |
| Week 7 (28th Feb) | Dr Daphne Richemond-Barak (Reichman University) | Humanitarian AI |
| Week 8 (6th March) | Dr Veronica Fikfak (UCL) & Professor Laurence R. Helfer (Duke) | Automating International Human Rights Adjudication |
| Week 1 (11th Oct) | Dr Brian D Earp | Credit-Blame Asymmetries in Human Use of Personalised versus 'Standard' Generative AI |
| Week 2 (19th Oct) | Alondra Nelson | Thick Alignment |
| Week 4 (2nd Nov) | Paolo Carozza | The Meta Oversight Board and the Self-Regulation of Tech Companies |
| Week 6 (16th Nov) | Mr Justice Fraser | Why do we expect more of Machines than we do of ourselves? |
| Week 2 (4th May) | Institute for Ethics in AI | AI in the law or AI in the place of Law? |
| Week 4 (18th May) | Institute for Ethics in AI | AI Systems, Impacts, and Accountability |
| Week 6 (1st June) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Reflection on the nature of AI and Creativity |
| Week 1 (18th Jan) | Zeynep Pamuk (LSE) | Explanation and Power: Governing Well with Algorithms |
| Week 2 (25th January) | Joe Tomlinson & Jed Meers (University of York) | AI on the frontlines: Towards a theory of administrative fairness |
| Week 3 (15th February) | Matthew Dennis (TU Eindhoven) | Reimagining Persuasive Technologies for Digital Well-Being |
| Week 4 (23rd February) | Seth Lazar (Australian National University) | Generative Ethics and the New Bing |
| Week 1 (26th Oct) | Daron Acemoglu (MIT) | The Economic Impact of AI |
| Week 2 (11th November) | Paolo Benanti (Pontifical Gregorian University) | Algorethics: Thinking about the Techno-Human Condition |
| Week 3 (2nd November) | Jeff Howard (UCL) | Policing Platforms: The Ethics of AI-Powered Content Moderation |
| Week 4 (9th November) | Vilas Dahr (Patrick McGovern Foundation) | Intention and Knowledge: The Conundrum of Civil Society's Role in Our Technological Future |
| Week 1 (18th May) | Tom Simpson (Oxford) | Should countries that comply with the laws of war adopt a no-first-use policy on automated weapons systems? |
| Week 2 (25th May) | Max Kiener (Oxford) | Taking Responsibility for AI |
| Week 3 (8th June) | Roger Brownsword (KCL) | Three New Billboards at Ebbing: Law's Imperfect Governance, AI, and the Global Commons' |
| Week 4 (15th June) | Daniel Susskind (KCL) | Work and Meaning in the Age of AI |
| Week 1 (27th Jan) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Colloquium - System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How to Reboot |
| Week 2 (3rd Feb) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Colloquium - Why New Realities Demand New Rights |
| Week 3 (16th Feb) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Research Seminar - Directly Discriminatory Algorithims |
| Week 4 (23rd Feb) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Research Seminar - Respect: a normative ethical framework for interactive systems |
| Week 5 (10th March) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Colloquium - We, The Robots |
| Week 1 (12th October) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Colloquium with Jamal Greene - The Right to Free Expression on Social Media |
| Week 2 (28th October) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Colloquium with Eva Kaili: The EU proposal for an AI regulation: a step towards a responsible global AI framework |
| Week 3 (18th November) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Colloquium with Ted Lechterman |
| Week 4 (25th November) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Colloquium - Noise: a flaw in human judgement |
| Week 1 (6th May) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Colloquium with Frank Pasquale: Machines Judging Humans |
| Week 2 (3rd June) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Colloquium with Richard Susskind: Must Legal Trials be Face to Face |
| Week 3 (8th June) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Seminar: AI, Ethics, and War |
| Week 1 (28th Jan) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Live Event: Institute for Ethics in AI Colloquium on AI and Work |
| Week 2 (11th February) | Institute for Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Event: Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology |
| Week 3 (16th February) | Institute for Ethics in AI | AI in a Democratic Culture - Presented by the Institute for Ethics in AI |
| Week 1 (29th October) | Institute of Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Seminar |
| Week 2 (13th November) | Institute of Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Live Event |
| Week 3 (26th November) | Institute of Ethics in AI | Ethics in AI Seminar |
