Oxford University's Institute for Ethics in AI. Tackling the ethical challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence. Part of @PhilFacOx and @uniofoxford.
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🗣️ Is this the moment for AI ethics?
Everybody has AI on their mind. As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in our lives, questions about its impact are becoming impossible to ignore. How should AI be governed? Who is responsible when things go wrong? And what remains uniquely human in a world shaped by intelligent machines?
In this video, Professor Edward Harcourt, Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford (@UniofOxford), reflects on why AI ethics matters.
As AI continues to develop and be deployed across society, ethical questions cannot be treated as an afterthought. Human values, responsibility and informed judgement must remain at the centre of technological development. Professor Harcourt also explores one of the deepest questions raised by AI: what, if anything, is uniquely human?
Watch the video ⬇️ #AIEthics #WhyAIEthicsMatters
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📢 We are delighted to welcome Alejandro De Los Angeles (@delosangeles520) as an Academic Visitor to the Institute for Ethics in AI.
Alejandro is a physician-scientist in training and interdisciplinary scholar whose work bridges artificial intelligence, neuroscience, stem cell biology, psychiatry and bioethics.
His research explores the governance of advanced AI systems in medicine, including questions of AI-assisted clinical reasoning, machine consciousness, and the ethical integration of AI into healthcare. He also studies ethical and policy challenges associated with emerging human biological systems, including stem cell-based embryo models, neural organoids, and interspecies chimeras.
Alejandro completed a DPhil in Psychiatry at the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar, an MPH from Harvard University, and postdoctoral studies at Harvard, MIT, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He has authored research and policy scholarship published in leading journals including Nature, Cell, and Nature Methods. His current work focuses on developing ethical and governance frameworks for transformative technologies at the intersection of AI and the life sciences.
Welcome to the Institute!
🔗 More information about the Institute: oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk
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Dr Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green, Director of Research at the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford, is taking part in this year's @DLDConference Health x BAIOSPHERE in Munich, where she is speaking onInvasive Brain Computer Interface Implantation: State of the Art and Future Perspectives.
The programme also features Simon Jacob, Lorenzo Masia, Michael Mehringer, Bernhard Meyer and Georg Starke (Technical University of Munich).
🔗 Watch the live stream here: dld-conference.com
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What is AI ethics and why does it matter?
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in society, questions about responsibility, fairness, accountability and human values become ever more important.
At the Institute for Ethics in AI, we explore fundamental questions at the heart of AI ethics, from transparency and governance to the ways AI may shape human life and what we value.
📖 Learn more about ethics in AI and why it matters: oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/eth…
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📢 Application deadline update |
Please note that, due to the volume of applications received to date, applications for the 2026/27 Fellowships will now close on Friday 12 June 2026 at 23:59 (BST).
🔗 Further information is available here: afp.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk…
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🗣️ Professor Edward Harcourt, Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI, has been featured in Untitled, the magazine of the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
“…whether human mindedness can be reproduced without the familiar materials of flesh and blood matters…”
In 'The Human Factor: How AI Turns the Spotlight on Us', Professor Harcourt considers how developments in AI raise fundamental questions about human mindedness. Rather than asking only how far AI can resemble human beings, he reflects on how AI sharpens the question of what may be distinctive about human communication, trust, companionship and care.
Read the article: schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/th…
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Join us for our Expert Insights Seminar with Professor @CassSunstein: Does artificial intelligence (AI) have rights? A plausible answer depends on the answer to another question: Is AI capable of experiencing emotions, such as sadness, pleasure, regret, anxiety, joy and distress?
📅 Thursday, 18 June 2026
⏰ 5–6.30pm
📍 Online event
🔗 Register for the online seminar: oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/eve…
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📢 Professor @IgnacioCofone, Professor of Law and Regulation of AI at the @UniofOxford , Institute for Ethics in AI and Faculty of Law @OxfordLawFac, explores how the 'black box' framing of AI systems is often a deliberate choice rather than an unavoidable feature in his new blog, 'The Black Box is Usually a Choice'.
🔗 Read the blog: oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/blo…
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The Institute for Ethics in AI retweeted
The Accelerator Fellowship Programme of the Institute for @EthicsInAI , @UniofOxford , is now open for applications for the 2026/27 cohort.
The programme is designed for practising professionals and academics from any discipline, who hold a continuing role within a university, not-for-profit research organisation, industry or who are otherwise professionally established and actively engaging with the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence.
📅 Application deadline: 15 June 2026 (23:59 UK time)
The fellowship is intended for individuals with an established track record whose projects are already in development and have clear pathways to impact.
We encourage prospective candidates to review the eligibility criteria carefully before applying.
🔗 Further information and application details: afp.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk…
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Competition Announcement 📣 The Institute for Ethics in AI invites University of Oxford (@UniofOxford) undergraduates to engage with one of the most pressing ethical questions in AI today as part of this year's Bernard Williams Essay Prize:
‘Should AI speech be limited?’
Submit your response for the chance to win up to £500 and help shape the conversation on the future of AI. Entries are now open.
🔗 Find out more and submit your essay here:
oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/ber… oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/ber…
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Dr Caroline Emmer de Albuquerque Green, Lead of the Accelerator Fellowship Programme (@EthicsinAI_AFP) and Senior Fellow Ambassador Audrey Tang (@audreyt) will speak at SXSW London 2026 (@sxswlndn) as part of a featured session exploring the future of AI alignment and democratic technology.
Their fireside conversation, Reimagining AI Alignment for Humans, will take place on 2 June 2026 from 10:35–11:05am at Protein Studios (Stage 1).
Drawing on democratic participation models, ethical governance frameworks and civic technology, Dr Green and Ambassador Tang will introduce the '6-Pack of Care', an approach to AI alignment centred on cooperation, human dignity and collective stewardship rather than top-down control.
🔗 Learn more and register: afp.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk…
🔗 Explore Civic AI: civic.ai
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Hono(u)red to speak at Oxford last week on AI, freedom, dignity, and the limits of prediction. @UniofOxford @EthicsinAI_AFP @EthicsInAI
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We won’t let the prophecies get us down!
Let’s fill up on hope, ideas, innovation & inspiration at #SXSWLondon.🙌
Join me & Caroline Green for our Reimagining AI Alignment for Humans Fireside Chat.🙏
▶️sxswlondon.com/session/reima…
#ScrollLess, #SleepMore & #GoGreyscale.💯
#LLAP🖖
ALT A greyscale image of Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, promotes the Reimagining AI Alignment for Humans Fireside Chat with Caroline Green, director of research at the Institute for Ethics in AI, taking place June 2, 2026, at Protein Studios in Shoreditch as part of SXSW London.
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How to SOLVE the AI puzzles of today?🧩
We start by tilling the #DataSoil🌱, tending our gardens of #CivicAI care & making democracy fast, fair & fun again.
Watch my SOLVE at MIT 2026: Keynote Speech & Fireside Conversation with Hala Hanna!🙏
▶️civic.ai/we-the-people-are-t…
#LLAP🖖
ALT Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, makes the Vulcan salute in a predominantly black promotional graphic with white text for SOLVE at MIT 2026 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ALT Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, delivers the SOLVE at MIT 2026 keynote in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ALT Audrey Tang (right), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, takes part in a fireside conversation with Hala Hanna (left), executive director of MIT Solve, during SOLVE at MIT 2026 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ALT The text logo for SOLVE at MIT 2026 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is displayed in a stylized, minimalist black font with fragmented strokes on a plain white background.
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