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1 Season 3 Episode 2 | Our Brains, Our Selves: In Conversation with Prof. Masud Husain In this episode, we are joined by Professor Masud Husain, neurologist and clinical neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, to explore how the brain’s failures can reveal its deepest workings. Masud Husain 10 Nov 2025
2 Oxford Careers Service: pathways and possibilities A conversation with Careers Service Director Jonathan Black on careers support at Oxford, employability, AI, internships, undergraduate and postgraduate support, international students, Oxford’s alumni network and the evolving future of work. Wantoe T. Wantoe, Jonathan Black 06 Nov 2025
3 Episode 1 - Victoria Murphy In our first episode, we talk to Professor of Applied Linguistics, and Director of the Department of Education, Victoria Murphy. We discuss Victoria’s career to date, upbringing and research. Heather Sherkunov, Victoria Murphy 04 Nov 2025
4 How people are using generative AI, and what this means for news We discuss how people are responding to the growing role of AI in news and wider society Felix M. Simon, Mitali Mukherjee 13 Oct 2025
5 6-Pack of Care: Ambassador Audrey Tang and Dr Caroline Green on the ‘Civic Care’ approach In this episode, Dr. Caroline Green is joined by Ambassador Audrey Tang to introduce the “6-Pack of Care” framework—a practical architecture for embedding civic care into AI governance. Audrey Tang, Caroline Green 02 Oct 2025
6 Big Tech and the Automation of Genocide in Gaza This seminar was delivered at the Middle East Centre on 30 May 2025 by Dr Samer Abdelnour, University of Edinburgh Business School, and Chaired by St Antony’s George Antonius Birzeit Visiting Fellow, Dr Amal Nazzal. Samer Abdelnour, Amal Nazzal 30 Sep 2025
7 Robo-dogs and The Rise of Crimmigration In a world obsessed with AI, what are robo-dogs and how are they deployed at border control? With the rise of “crimmigration” across the world, the lines between migration management and criminal law are becoming blurred. Petra Molnar, Peter Walsh, Jacqui Broadhead, Rob McNeil 07 Jul 2025
8 Digital News Report 2025. Episode 2: AI and personalised news In this episode of our Digital News Report 2025 series we look at how audiences think about the various ways that AI is being rolled out across newsrooms. Amy Ross Arguedas, Host Mitali Mukherjee 23 Jun 2025
9 Chatting with AfOx fellow Vuyokazi Mntuyedwa on digital literacies and South African Higher Education Vuyo, an AfOx fellow at the University of Oxford and academic literacies lecturer at CPUT in South Africa, reflects on digital literacies and transforming South African Higher Education. Vuyokazi Mntuyedw, Danica Sims 17 Jun 2025
10 Formalizing the Future: Lean’s Impact on Mathematics, Programming, and AI Leo De Moura: Formalizing the Future: Lean’s Impact on Mathematics, Programming, and AI Leo De Moura 15 May 2025
11 Creative Commons How Can AI Be Deployed Ethically in the Defence Sector? With Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo and Sir Chris Deverell Our experts discuss why AI adoption in defence is slow -- covering procurement, regulation, and tech hurdles -- and how conflicts like the Ukraine war shape its future. They also call for public debate on risks and ethics. Mariarosaria Taddeo, Chris Deverell 24 Mar 2025
12 How AI is being regulated: Professors Sandra Wachter and Brent Mittelstadt The current state of artificial intelligence regulation, the potential negative consequences of AI proliferation, and what needs to change about how AI is governed by policymakers, with Professor Sandra Wachter and Professor Brent Mittelstadt. Veena McCoole, Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt 13 Feb 2025
13 A Good Science Read: 'The Fly Trap' and 'As If Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence' Professor Sir Charles Godfray and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'The Fly Trap' by Fredrik Sjöberg and 'As if Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence' by Neil Shadbolt and Roger Hampson. Charles Godfray 24 Jan 2025
14 What should we expect from journalism in 2025? In this episode we discuss what news publishers are excited and concerned about in the year ahead. Federica Cherubini, Nic Newman 17 Jan 2025
15 Jobs of the future: Dr Fabian Stephany and El-Iza Mohamedou The future of work in an AI-driven world, whether these new technologies help or hurt the labour market, and what employees should be doing to future-proof their skills, with Dr Fabian Stephany (Oxford Internet Institute) and El-Iza Mohamedou (OECD). Fabian Stephany, El-Iza Mohamedou, Veena McCoole 16 Jan 2025
16 Reimagining Humanity in the Age of Technology This lecture will provide a brief journey into the future, providing projections for how our lives will change as technological innovations continue to accelerat Scott Clarke 19 Dec 2024
17 The digital lives of children: Professor Vicki Nash and Professor Katya Hertog How digital technologies impact young children, and new ways to think about the ethical and safety measures that govern their use of technology, with Professor Vicki Nash and Professor Katya Hertog (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford) Vicki Nash, Katya Hertog 12 Dec 2024
18 Fellowship Takeaways. Episode 10 – Data journalism in the age of AI Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: the evolving field of data visualisation in journalism. Alberto Cairo, Simon Rogers, Caithlin Mercer 18 Oct 2024
19 Fellowship Takeaways. Episode 8 – AI and ethics in Journalism Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: the ethical use of AI and the responsibility that comes with it. Arthur Grimonpont, Bahareh Heravi 18 Oct 2024
20 Fellowship Takeaways. Episode 5 – Defining your strategy around AI and disinformation Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: how AI and disinformation have become intertwined, and what that means for journalists battling fake news. Peter Pomerantsev, Dima Saber 18 Oct 2024
21 Fellowship Takeaways. Episode 3 – AI and innovation in journalism Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: how AI is revolutionising newsrooms and opening up new possibilities for journalism. Bahareh Heravi, Dima Saber, Hilke Schellmann 18 Oct 2024
22 Creative Commons AI and the Future of Audio. Episode 5 - Is it possible to build a local radio station powered by AI? This tech CEO says so Broadcast radio is facing an existential question: can it survive in the digital era, when young audiences don’t know what FM and AM mean? Tech company Futuri Media says they can revitalize local radio using AI. Daniel Anstandig, Gretel Kahn 14 Aug 2024
23 Creative Commons AI and the Future of Audio. Episode 4 - How Swedish Radio balances journalism and AI without falling for hype How do you best integrate AI in your news strategy as a public service broadcasting organisation? That is a question that Swedish Radio has been pondering and tackling first hand for the past year. Olle Zachrison, Gretel Kahn 13 Aug 2024
24 AI and the Future of Audio. Episode 3 - Meet NAT, the AI-generated presenter offering soft news to Mexican audiences Mexican news organisation 'Grupo Fórmula' has created an AI news anchor to attract younger audiences. Host Gretel Kahn spoke with Oswaldo Aguilar Castro, Director of Technology and AI Infrastructure. Oswaldo Aguilar Castro, Gretel Kahn 06 Aug 2024
25 AI and the Future of Audio. Episode 2 - The day AI clones took over a Swiss radio station On April 27 2023, artificial intelligence took over a radio station in francophone Switzerland, the voices were AI clones of their real hosts, everything they said were scripts generated by AI, and even the music played was aggregated and composed by AI. Gretel Kahn, Antoine Multone 02 Aug 2024
26 Creative Commons AI and the Future of Audio. Episode 1 - When AI meets creative writing: an audio experiment at Czech Radio Can AI write better short stories than a human writer? This is the questions at the heart of the Digital Writer project from Czech Radio. Gretel Kahn, Anna Vošalíková 24 Jul 2024
27 Creative Commons Our podcast: Digital News Report 2024. Episode 2. Public attitudes about AI and journalism In this episode of our Digital News Report 2024 series, we explore what people think about the use of AI in journalism. Amy Ross Arguedas, Federica Cherubini 24 Jun 2024
28 Artificial Intelligence and Health Security, managing the risks Professor Karl Roberts, University of New England, NSW, Australia gives a talk on generative AI and large language models as applied to healthcare. Karl Roberts 17 Apr 2024
29 How newsrooms are meeting the challenges of AI, diversity and flexible working In this episode of our podcast we explore our latest report on how news organisations around the world are adapting their working practices to external changes and internal dynamics including AI, diversity and flexible working. Gretel Kahn, Ramaa Sharma , Federica Cherubini 15 Dec 2023
30 Creative Commons The Pandemic People: Prof. Eddie Holmes Professor Eddie Holmes, who co-authored the publication of the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 through work with colleagues in Wuhan, China speaks to Professor Andrew Pollard about his scientific career and this pivotal pandemic work. Andrew Pollard, Eddie Holmes 30 Oct 2023
31 Strachey Lecture: Use or Be Used - Regaining Control of AI It’s said that Henry Ford’s customers wanted “a faster horse”. If Henry Ford was selling us artificial intelligence today, what would the customer call for, “a smarter human”? Neil Lawrence 04 Sep 2023
32 Creative Commons AI and Services-led Growth: Evidence from Indian Job Adverts Online job adverts show that the demand for AI related skills has grown rapidly in countries around the world since 2015. This project examines the demand for AI skills in India's service sector, using a new dataset of online job adverts. Alex Copestake, Max Marczinek, Ashley Pople, Katherine Stapleton 30 Aug 2023
33 Making machines: Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace Join our experts in conversation as they consider the thinking of two great 19th century women writers exploring the boundary between human and machine Ursula Martin, Sharon Ruston, Helen Cook 21 Jun 2022
34 Emotion, AI, and Human Values Professor Rosalind W. Picard, Sc.D., FIEEE presents the 2022 Tanner Lecture. Rosalind W Picard 20 Jun 2022
35 Creative Commons Victims of Algorithmic Violence: An Introduction to AI Ethics and Human-AI Interaction A high-level overview of key areas of AI ethics and not-ethics, exploring the challenges of algorithmic decision-making, kinds of bias, and interpretability, linking these issues to problems of human-system interaction. Max Van Kleek 06 Apr 2022
36 Strachey Lecture: The Quest for Truth in the Information Age The advantages of computing for society are tremendous. But while new technological developments emerge, we also witness a number disadvantages and unwanted side-effects. Sonja Smets 04 Nov 2021
37 Recent Applications of Stein's Method in Machine Learning Qiang Liu (University of Texas at Austin) gives the OxCSML Seminar on Friday 4th June 2021. Qiang Liu 29 Jul 2021
38 Ethics in AI Seminar: Responsible Research and Publication in AI Ethics in AI Seminar - presented by the Institute for Ethics in AI Peter Millican, Rosie Campbell, Carolyn Ashurst, Helena Webb 12 Jul 2021
39 Ethics in AI Colloquium with Adrienne Mayor: Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Adrienne Mayor, Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, Armand D'Angour, John Tasioulas 12 Jul 2021
40 AI in a Democratic Culture - Presented by the Institute for Ethics in AI Launch of the Institute for Ethics in AI with Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Joshua Cohen and Hélène Landemore. Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute for Ethics in AI Joshua Cohen, Hélène Landemore, Nigel Shadbolt 12 Jul 2021
41 A primer on PAC-Bayesian learning *followed by* News from the PAC-Bayes frontline Benjamin Guedj, University College London, gives a OxCSML Seminar on 26th March 2021. Benjamin Guedj 28 May 2021
42 Strachey Lecture: Getting AI Agents to Interact and Collaborate with Us on Our Terms As AI technologies enter our everyday lives at an ever increasing pace, there is a greater need for AI systems to work synergistically with humans. Subbarao Kambhampati 12 May 2021
43 Distribution-dependent generalization bounds for noisy, iterative learning algorithms Karolina Dziugaite (Element AI), gives the OxCSML Seminar on 26th February 2021. Karolina Dziugaite 17 Mar 2021
44 Veridical Data Science for biomedical discovery: detecting epistatic interactions with epiTree Bin Yu, Chancellor's Professor, Departments of Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley, gives a seminar for the Department of Statistics. Bin Yu 26 Feb 2021
45 Does AI threaten Human Autonomy? This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Peter Millican, Jonathan Pugh, Jessica Morley, Carina Prunkl 07 Dec 2020
46 Episode 7 - National myth: Rewriting America and China Ken Liu discusses the power of myth in the construction of national narratives and the revisionist work that epic fantasy can do to rewrite them, drawing on the weight of time as omnipresent to narrative intent. Ken Liu, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg 23 Nov 2020
47 Privacy Is Power Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Carissa Véliz, Sir Michael Tugendhat, Stephanie Hare, John Tasioulas 05 Nov 2020
48 Algorithms Eliminate Noise (and That Is Very Good) Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. John Tasioulas, Ruth Chang, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Cass Sunstein 05 Nov 2020
49 Ethics in AI Education This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Peter Millican, Milo Phillips-Brown, Max Van Kleek, Helena Webb 05 Nov 2020
50 Episode 3 - People like me: Speculation in Pakistan Sami Shah ranges over his radio, comedy and burgeoning literary career, and describes how he has to write himself into the speculative fiction space. Sami Shah, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg 23 Oct 2020
51 3f. Values and AI: view from public policy Jo Wolff and Vafa Ghazavi, Blavatnik School of Government, gives the sixth and final talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. Jo Wolff, Vafa Ghazavi 10 Feb 2020
52 3e. AI and business Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, gives the fifth talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. Alan Morrison 10 Feb 2020
53 3d. AI and finance Nir Vulkan, Saïd Business School, gives the fourth talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. Nir Vulkan 10 Feb 2020
54 3c. Population health and AI: efficiency, accuracy and trust Angeliki Kerasidou, Ethox Centre, gives the third talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. Angeliki Kerasidou 10 Feb 2020
55 3b. AI in healthcare Claire Bloomfield, National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging, gives the second talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. Claire Bloomfield 10 Feb 2020
56 3a. Rethinking ethics and humanities for the 21st Century Mike Parker, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities gives the first talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. Mike Parker 10 Feb 2020
57 2d. Computational propaganda Vidya Narayanan, Oxford Internet Institute, Vidya Narayanan 27 Jan 2020
58 2c. Use, users and the social context for AI Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the third talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019). Gina Neff 27 Jan 2020
59 Image Consciousness in the Emergency Department - Developing and Evaluating Novel Radiological Pathways and Technologies in the Acute Healthcare Setting A brief portfolio of four distinct projects - scaphoid injuries, blunt chest trauma in the elderly, acute gallstone disease, and a mobile x-ray machine with embedded AI technology. Alex Novak, Lois Brand, Phil Hormbrey 22 Jan 2020
60 A discussion of ethical challenges posed by AI, involving experts from fields across Oxford - Seminar 1 An introduction by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt; The place of Ethics in AI, AI Ethics and legal regulation, Ethics of AI in healthcare Tom Douglas, Carissa Véliz, Vicki Nash, Sandra Wachter 20 Jan 2020
61 Creative Commons Facing the future with our eyes wide open: What does the future hold for (cardiac) surgery that will change the way we practice? Many of the things that will be in this talk may never happen, some of them will happen and some of them are already happening. How they will evolve and to what extent, and how all of these things will blend into one future will be interesting to explore. George Krasopoulos 10 Jan 2020
62 1g. Ethics and AI at the Oxford Big Data Institute Gil McVean, Big Data Institute, gives the seventh talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. Gil McVean 11 Nov 2019
63 1f. Re-uniting ethics and the law for AI Brent Mittelstadt, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the sixth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. Brent Mittelstadt 11 Nov 2019
64 1e. When AI disrupts the law Sandra Wachter, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the fifth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. Sandra Wachter 11 Nov 2019
65 1d. AI ethics and legal regulation Vicki Nash, Oxford Internet Institute gives the fourth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. Vicki Nash 11 Nov 2019
66 1c. AI-ethics research at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy Tom Douglas, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy gives the third talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. Tom Douglas 11 Nov 2019
67 1b. The place of philosophy in the ethics of AI Carissa Véliz, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, gives the second talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. Carissa Véliz 11 Nov 2019
68 1a. Background and Aims of the Institute for Ethics in AI  Nigel Shadbolt, Principal of Jesus College, Department of Computer Science, gives the first talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. Nigel Shadbolt 11 Nov 2019
69 Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness Could an AI be conscious? If so, how could we tell? What would a conscious AI mean for the possible risks that AI pose to humanity? In this episode we speak to Professor David Chalmers (NYU) about philosophy, consciousness and AI. David Chalmers, Alice Evatt, Henry Tann 07 May 2019
70 Strachey Lecture: Doing for our robots what evolution did for us Professor Leslie Kaelbling (MIT) gives the 2019 Stachey lecture. The Strachey Lectures are generously supported by OxFORD Asset Management. Leslie Kaelbling 29 Mar 2019
71 How not to Ruin Everything: Futures Thinking Launch Launch event for Futures Thinking, a new research group looking into future problems and opportunities created by advances in technology and artificial intelligence. Chelsea Haith, Robert Iliffe, Gretta Corporaal, Alexandra Paddock 05 Mar 2019
72 Season Finale: AI selection box In the final episode of our series, we’re looking back at the themes we’ve discussed so far, and forward into the likely development of AI. Gil McVean, Sandra Wachter, Nigel Shadbolt, Peter Millican 08 Jan 2019
73 Is China leading the way in AI? In the penultimate episode of series one of Futuremakers, we’re looking at the development of AI across the globe. Peter Millican, Mike Wooldridge, Xiaorong Ding, Sophie-Charlotte Fischer 19 Dec 2018
74 What does AI mean for the future of humanity Join our host, philosopher Professor Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with three experts from Oxford University. Peter Millican, Allan Dafoe, Mike Osborne, Jade Leung 12 Dec 2018
75 Has AI changed the way we find the truth? Around the world, automated bot accounts have enabled some government agencies and political parties to exploit online platforms in dispersing fake messages. Peter Millican, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Vidya Narayanan, Mimie Liotsiou 06 Dec 2018
76 From Ada Lovelace to Alan Turing, the birth of AI? Many developments in science are achieved through people being able to ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’ and in the history of AI two giants in particular stand out. Peter Millican, Ursula Martin, Andrew Hodges, Jacob Ward 19 Nov 2018
77 Can we build AI with Emotional Intelligence? The 2018 Annual Charles Simonyi Lecture Marcus du Sautoy and Professor Rosalind Picard for 2018's annual Simonyi Lecture: Can we build AI with Emotional Intelligence? Marcus du Sautoy, Rosalind Picard 09 Nov 2018
78 Is AI good for our health? Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores the topic "Is AI good for our health?" Peter Millican, Alison Noble, Paul Leeson, Jessica Morley 02 Nov 2018
79 Surviving in an AI world How do you future proof yourself from AI? Vivienne Ming 16 Jul 2018
80 Future of work with Google Chief Economist Hal Varian and Professor Jonathan Trevor AI’s effect on the labour force, who wins man or machine? Jonathan Trevor, Hal Varian 16 Jul 2018
81 How do you teach a robot social cues? As robots are increasingly deployed in settings requiring social interaction we asked the Big Question: How do you teach a robot social cues? To find out we visited Shimon Whiteson, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science Shimon Whiteson 19 Jun 2018
82 Creative Commons The Future of Artificial Intelligence How modern neuroscience is researching the way the human brain can comprehend a working environment. Simon Stringer 19 Oct 2017
83 Can robots be made creative enough to invent their own language? Luc Steels delivers the 2012 Simonyi lecture and asks can machines be creative enough to invent their own language? Luc Steels, Marcus du Sautoy 18 Nov 2016
84 Strachey Lecture: Artificial Intelligence and the Future In this talk Demis Hassabis discuss's what is happening at the cutting edge of AI research, its future impact on fields such as science and healthcare, and how developing AI may help us better understand the human mind. Demis Hassabis 26 Feb 2016
85 Can robots be made creative enough to invent their own language? Luc Steels delivers the 2012 Simonyi lecture and asks can machines be creative enough to invent their own language? Luc Steels, Marcus du Sautoy 18 Oct 2012
86 Creative Commons Consciousness and Computability Prof. Sir Roger Penrose on the idea of artificial intelligence and whether consciousness can be replicated by a computer - a discussion of new physics which may take us closer to explaining the mind. Roger Penrose, Ankita Anirban 30 Jul 2012
87 Creating Cyborgs Professor Kevin Warwick from Reading University talks about his innovative research in the area of robotics and cyborgs. Kevin Warwick 08 Feb 2012