Area of Specialisation > AI Ethics

A conference celebrating the philosophy of Michael Dummett at his centenary.

The Oxford Spinoza Conference 2025

Paolo Benanti: 'Algorethics: Thinking about the Techno-Human Condition'

'AI in the Law or AI in the Place of Law?'

'Ethics in AI Colloquium - AI Systems, Impacts, and Accountability'

Seth Lazar (Australian National University): 'Generative Ethics and the New Bing'

'Ethics in AI Colloquium - Reflection on the Nature of (Artificial) Intelligence and Creativity'

Daron Acemoğlu (MIT): 'The Economic Impact of AI'

The Institute for Ethics in AI and Oxford Martin School are pleased to announce an exclusive morning event featuring a keynote address by distinguished economist Professor Daron Acemoglu on May 17, 2024.

Jeff Howard (UCL): 'Policing Platforms: The Ethics of AI-Powered Content Moderation'

Vilas Dahr (Patrick McGovern Foundation): 'Intention and Knowledge: The Conundrum of Civil Society's Role in Our Technological Future'

Zeynep Pamuk (LSE): 'Explanation and Power: Governing Well with Algorithms'

Joe Tomlinson (University of York) and Jed Meers (University of York): 'AI on the frontlines: Towards a theory of administrative fairness?'

Matthew Dennis (TU Eindhoven): 'Reimagining Persuasive Technologies for Digital Well-Being'

Josiah Ober | Ethics in AI with Aristotle

Professor Ursula Coope (Oxford): 'Aristotle on the Perception of Motion'

Ethics in AI Annual Lecture with Alondra Nelson: 'Thick Alignment'

Mark Coeckelbergh (Vienna): 'AI, Democracy, and the Common Good'

Paolo Carozza: 'The Meta Oversight Board and the Self-Regulation of Tech Companies'

Mr Justice Fraser: 'Why Do We Expect More of Machines than we do of Ourselves?'

Introducing the work of Professor Philip Torr (University of Oxford)

Sara Wahedi (Blavatnik School of Government, CEO of Civaam, Ehtesab): 'The Ethics of 'Information as Aid’: AI, Security, and Innovation in Crisis Regions'

Dr Brian D Earp: 'Credit-Blame Asymmetries in Human Use of Personalised versus ‘Standard’ Generative AI'

Lily Xu (University of Oxford): 'Algorithmic Decision Making and Participation for Biodiversity Conservation'

Dr Aphrodite Papachristodoulou (University of Galway): 'Power, Technologies and Migration Control: Rendering the Invisible Visible'

Dr Iason Gabriel (Google DeepMind): 'A Matter of Principle? AI Alignment as the Fair Treatment of Claims'

Professor Barrry Smith (University of London): 'Large Language Models: Tools or Colleagues?'

Dr David Barnes: 'AI and the Military: Beyond Autonomous Weapons to Strategic Enterprise Transformation'

Dr Alex Grzankowski (Birkbeck, University of London): 'Benchmarking Intelligence Better'

'More, Faster: AI and the Age of Iteration'

Professor Jakub Foerster: 'Opponent-Shaping and Interference in General-Sum Games'

Professor Nathalia Smuha (Institute for Ethics in AI, KU Leuven): 'Algorithmic Rule By Law: How Algorithmic Regulation in the Public Sector Erodes the Rule of Law'

Dr Jun Zhao (Computer Science, University of Oxford): 'Moral Machines for Children'

Kyle Van Oosterum (Philosophy, University of Oxford): 'Algorithms, Corporations, and Self-Respect'

Dr Miranda Anderson (University of Edinburgh): 'Fission-Fusion AI: Concepts of Cognition and Ethics in AI'

Ray Eitel-Porter (University of Cambridge): 'AI Safety: Whose Problem is it Anyway?'

Dr Edmond Awad (Exeter Business School): 'Understanding Human Perception of “AI in the Wild”'

Dr James Kirkpatrick (University of Oxford): 'Generics and Default Reasoning in Large Language Models'

Dr Samir Sinha (Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI and Director of Geriatrics at Mount Sinai and the University Health Network Hospitals in Toronto): 'Will AI Help or Hinder Our Attempts to Promote Healthy Ageing? A Geriatrician's Perspecti

Dr Daphné Richemond-Barak (Reichman University): 'Humanitarian AI'

Dr Paul Billingham (University of Oxford): 'Online Public Shaming, the Duties of Social Media Platforms, and the Case for Regulation'

Sylvie Delacroix ((Inaugural Jeff Price Chair in Digital Law, King’s College London; Fellow, Alan Turing Institute): 'Lost in Conversation? Uncertainty, 'Value-Alignment', and Large Language Models'

Dr Veronica Fikfak (UCL) and Professor Laurence R. Helfer (Duke University): 'Automating International Human Rights Adjudication'

Professor Claudia E. Haupt (Northeastern University): 'Generative AI and Medical Advice​​​​​​​'

Bernard Williams Essay Prize 2024

Tom Simpson | 'Should countries that comply with the laws of war adopt a no-first-use policy on automated weapons systems?'

Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Aislinn Kelly-Lyth and Reuben Binns | Directly Discriminatory Algorithms

Max Kiener | 'Taking Responsibility for AI'

Max van Kleek | Respect: a normative ethical framework for interactive systems (i.e., how computers should treat people)

Roger Brownsword | 'Three New Billboards at Ebbing: Law's Imperfect Governance, AI, and the Global Commons'

Daniel Susskind | 'Work and Meaning in the Age of AI'

A discussion of ethical challenges posed by AI involving experts from fields across Oxford

A discussion of ethical challenges posed by AI involving experts from fields across Oxford

Professor Anu Bradford (Colombia Law School): 'The False Choice between Digital Regulation and Innovation'

Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Department of Computing, Imperial College London: 'How to Think About Large Language Models​​​​​​​'

Ruth Chang (University of Oxford): 'Two Mistakes in AI Design?'

Stuart Russell (University of California at Berkeley): 'Provably Beneficial Artificial Intelligence'

A Conversation with Craig Mundie - 'Can AI Be a Force for Good?'

Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI

Carissa Véliz in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou