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*Readings:*

Shannon Vallor, ‘Carebots and Caregivers: Sustaining the Ethical Idea of Care in the Twenty-First Century’ in Wendell Wallash and Peter Asaro (eds.), _Machine Ethics and Robot Ethics_ (Routledge, 2017)

Between Sovereignty and Interdependence: India and South Africa’s AI development strategies

Postgraduate students, fellows, staff and faculty from any discipline are welcome. This group aims to foster frequent interdisciplinary critical dialogue across Oxford and beyond about the political impacts of emerging technologies.

Please contact Callum Harvey (callum.harvey@oii.ox.ac.uk) in advance to participate or with any questions. Attendance is online only. You do not currently have to be affiliated with the University of Oxford to attend and participate in discussions.

AI Workers, Geopolitics, and Algorithmic Collective Action

Postgraduate students, fellows, staff and faculty from any discipline are welcome. This group aims to foster frequent interdisciplinary critical dialogue across Oxford and beyond about the political impacts of emerging technologies.

Please contact Callum Harvey (callum.harvey@oii.ox.ac.uk) in advance to participate or with any questions. Attendance is online only. You do not currently have to be affiliated with the University of Oxford to attend and participate in discussions.

Adventures in Countering Disinformation: Policy Insights from Expert Interviews

Postgraduate students, fellows, staff and faculty from any discipline are welcome. This group aims to foster frequent interdisciplinary critical dialogue across Oxford and beyond about the political impacts of emerging technologies.

Please contact Callum Harvey (callum.harvey@oii.ox.ac.uk) in advance to participate or with any questions. Attendance is online only. You do not currently have to be affiliated with the University of Oxford to attend and participate in discussions.

Hybrid Experts and the AI “Arms Race”

Postgraduate students, fellows, staff and faculty from any discipline are welcome. This group aims to foster frequent interdisciplinary critical dialogue across Oxford and beyond about the political impacts of emerging technologies.

Please contact Callum Harvey (callum.harvey@oii.ox.ac.uk) in advance to participate or with any questions. Attendance is online only. You do not currently have to be affiliated with the University of Oxford to attend and participate in discussions.

The (Geo)Political Economy of AI Openness: US and Chinese Open-Source AI Approaches in Historical Context

Postgraduate students, fellows, staff and faculty from any discipline are welcome. This group aims to foster frequent interdisciplinary critical dialogue across Oxford and beyond about the political impacts of emerging technologies.

Please contact Callum Harvey (callum.harvey@oii.ox.ac.uk) in advance to participate or with any questions. Attendance is online only. You do not currently have to be affiliated with the University of Oxford to attend and participate in discussions.

Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age

In this talk, Jon Penney explores key themes from his new book Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press, 2026), which examines the increasing weaponization of surveillance, censorship, and new technology to repress and control us. With corporations, governments, and extremists employing big data, artificial intelligence, FRT, cyber-mobs, and other technological threats to limit our rights and freedoms, concerns about chilling effects—or how these activities deter us from exercising our rights—have become urgent.

Eura Choi

Eura Choi is a DPhil candidate in International Relations under the supervision of Professor Todd Hall. Her dissertation examines the evolving institutional architecture of the Asia-Pacific, drawing on an original dataset and typology of economic and security-oriented multilateral organisations. Identifying a shift in regional institution-building practices since around 2010, her work advances a theory of middle-power institutional entrepreneurship in the context of a changing regional order. Her research project is supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.

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