Research
AUTOMATING GOVERNANCE
Data and AI are increasingly used—by states and digital platforms—to exercise power over us. What does it mean for that power to be used justly and legitimately? How can we design socio-technical systems that enable legitimate AI?
PERSONALISATION
The most sophisticated AI systems in the world ensure that your every moment online is tailored to you: personalised media, news, ads, prices. What are the consequences for democratic societies? Can we achieve serendipitous recommendations without creating new and troubling power relations?
ALGORITHMIC ETHICS
AI systems can increasingly make significant state changes without intervening human influence. We need to design these systems to take our values into account. But which values? And how can we translate them into algorithmic form?
HUMAN-AI INTERACTION
We fall into predictable errors when we interact with AI; and over time, those interactions change us. What cognitive and other biases should designers of AI systems account for? And how do we avoid ‘moral outsourcing’ in favour of AI systems that make us better moral agents?