The Institute for Ethics in AI

Oxford University's Institute for Ethics in AI. Tackling the ethical challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence. Part of @PhilFacOx and @uniofoxford.

[The Institute for Ethics in AI @EthicsInAI]

🗣️ 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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🗣️ 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: https://t.co/4A5blhB2G1

@OxHumanities

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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: https://t.co/PhkiBEiAbR

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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: https://t.co/GseVaSoBFk

[Accelerator Fellowship Programme @EthicsinAi @EthicsinAI_AFP]

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: https://t.co/gPMuGQEPwR

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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:
https://t.co/aLQW0x4718 https://t.co/aLQW0x4718

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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: https://t.co/bIif88Up55

🔗 Explore Civic AI: https://t.co/ZFkyLaEQSH

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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

[⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt]

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.🙏

▶️https://t.co/RDe6FcKzZZ

#ScrollLess, #SleepMore & #GoGreyscale.💯

#LLAP🖖

[⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt]

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!🙏

▶️https://t.co/qKsubE8A6g

#LLAP🖖

[⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt]

Safe & sustainable AI doesn’t lie beyond the stars.🌌

It’s on Earth. It’s in us. It’s our relationships of care.🫂

Software freedom holds the key to Kami-cultivated #CivicAI & a future of ⿻Plurality.

Take my @UniofOxford FLOSS lecture.🙏

▶️https://t.co/W1ruLPnBNU

#LLAP🖖

[⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt]

.@DalaiLama’s & @Pontifex’s words of wisdom carry wonderful weight in the Age of AI.💯

They inspire us to listen broadly & tend our #CivicAI garden with ⿻Plurality & 6⃣Pack of Care principles.

Dig deeper via my topical talk at @OSGAOxford.🙏

▶️https://t.co/u8Cku9zXZP

#LLAP🖖

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🗣️ We were pleased to welcome Jack Clark (@jackclarkSF), co-founder of @AnthropicAI, to deliver the second Cosmos HAI Lab Lecture, developed by the Human-Centered AI Lab in collaboration with Cosmos Institute (@cosmos_inst) and the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford. Jack’s lecture was introduced by @PhilippKoralus, Director of the Human-Centered AI Lab at the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford. The lecture was followed by a fireside chat between Jack Clark and @Brendan_McCord, founder and Chair of Cosmos Institute. In this lecture, Jack Clark explored how increasingly powerful AI systems may transform societies and human thought and reflected on the importance of maintaining mental autonomy and human sovereignty in an age of advanced synthetic intelligence.

🎥 View the recording of the lecture here:
https://t.co/BIX3S0DqRj

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🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Institute for Ethics in AI Fifth Annual Lecture at Jesus College (@JesusOxford), University of Oxford (@UniofOxford).

We were delighted to welcome Professor @CassSunstein, Senior Inaugural Fellow of the Accelerator Fellowship Programme and founder and director of the Behavioural Economics and Public Policy Program at Harvard Law School (@Harvard_Law), for his lecture, ‘Liberal AI’.

Professor Sunstein explored how artificial intelligence can help advance the core goals of a liberal society.

It was wonderful to see so many of you there.

A recording of the lecture will be made available in the coming weeks.

🔗Learn more about the Institute for Ethics in AI: https://t.co/Hmsz00ZwhX

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🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2026 HAI Lab Cosmos Lecture at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities , University of Oxford (@UniofOxford).

Professor @PhilippKoralus, Director of the Human-Centered AI Lab (HAI Lab) at the Institute for Ethics in AI, introduced an insightful lecture by @AnthropicAI co-founder Jack Clark (@jackclarkSF) titled ‘Change is Inevitable. Autonomy is Not’. During the lecture, Jack reflected on the challenge of maintaining human autonomy in an age of increasingly powerful synthetic intelligences, examining how societies can prepare for the changes AI may bring in the years ahead.

The lecture was followed by an engaging fireside chat between Jack Clark and @Brendan_McCord, founder of Cosmos Institute (@cosmos_inst), exploring the future of AI, autonomy and human-centred approaches to technological development.

We are grateful to all 400+ attendees, speakers, and contributors who helped make this lecture such a meaningful and inspiring event.

🔗 Learn more about HAI Lab here: https://t.co/7nUsvR49Gi

[Philipp Koralus @PhilippKoralus]

Many thanks again to @jackclarkSF for delivering the second annual Cosmos HAI Lab Lecture on Wednesday. And thanks to @Brendan_McCord for an excellent fireside chat. A great start to bringing this series to the brand-new Schwarzman Centre at @UniofOxford. @EthicsInAI @OxHumanities