The EU’s AI Act is significant for all of us
Oxford students have been no strangers to ChatGPT since its much-hyped launch in late 2022. Squabbles about the ethics of its use in research...
Oxford releases new guidance on AI use for students
The University of Oxford has released new guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools for students. The guidance, published 8 January 2024, comes following significant interest in the promises and dangers of AI, including the 2021 launch of the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI and the continued advertisement of the Saïd Business School’s Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme.
First digital atlas of human fetal brain development published by Oxford
A research team led by the University of Oxford published the first digital atlas of human fetal brain development. It depicts the way the...
Oxford professors join Musk and Wozniak in call for six month pause in AI development
At least 13 members of Oxford University’s academic staff have now signed an open letter calling on labs developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems more...
Humanness in AI: the Turing Test and a technology based on deception
"Without genuine semantic understanding of the language output, AI ethics is particularly difficult to navigate when it comes to chatbot technology."
Could artificial intelligence disrupt our world?
"AI has great potential for human welfare, holding the promise of countless scientific and medical advantages, as well as cheaper high-quality services, but involves a plethora of risks."
Review: ‘Klara and the Sun’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
'In Klara, Ishiguro crafts a memorable first-person narrative voice, simultaneously robotic and infantile, scrupulous yet naïve.'
The Mechanicanon: AI and Literary Value
this new canon shall – by learning to load and fire itself – exile us from even counting as its projectile or target
Oxford University leads network to combat global warming with AI
The European Commission has announced the funding of a new
Innovative Training Network, which will train PhD students in Machine Learning Skills
to address Climate Change....
Oxford University receives funding for research into potential benefits of AI
Oxford University has received a grant of over £1 million to aid research into the potential benefits of artificial intelligence to the legal sector.
The future of AI is closer than we think
Walter Goodwin argues that the abilities of artificial intelligence to put us all out of work is a far more pressing concern than nuanced ethical dilemmas
