ReEnTrust researchers have a full paper accepted by CHI’2021, exploring current practices taken by app developers from children’s mobile apps. The paper is led by Anirudh Ekambaranathan, supervised by Dr Jun Zhao from Oxford CS and Dr Max Van Kleek. The title of the paper is “Money makes the world go around”: Identifying Barriers toBetter Privacy in Children’s Apps From Developers’ Perspectives, and its abstract can be found below. The paper is under preparation. The industry for children’s apps is…
APGDA and ReEnTrust host webinar on rebuilding and enhancing trust in algorithms
On Wednesday 2nd December 2020, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Data Analytics and the ReEnTrust were delighted to host an online briefing on rebuilding and enhancing trust in algorithms. The event was chaired by APGDA Chair, Daniel Zeicher MP, and included contributions from a number of senior researchers from the ReEnTrust following the publication of their recent policy paper. Mr Zeichner opened the meeting at 11am and presented an overview of the work of the APGDA. He noted the growth…
Dr Ansgar Koene interviewed by AI for Business
Dr Ansgar Koene, from our Nottingham team, was invited by AI for Business for an interview about algorithmic accountability and transparency, recommender systems and whether our opinions are formed through design: https://www.aiforbusiness.net/ai-interviews. The interview recording can be found on YouTube.
Dr Ansgar Koene invited by UNESCO to talk about Ethics and AI
Dr Ansgar Koene was invited by UNESCO to participate in the Virtual Regional Consultation on the first draft of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on 27 – 28 July 2020. UNESCO has embarked on a two-year process to elaborate the first global standard-setting instrument on ethics of AI. The first draft of the Recommendation has been produced by an Ad hoc Expert Group (AHEG) appointed by the Director-General of UNESCO. The Virtual Regional Consultation for the…
Interdisciplinarity — Key to Responsible Innovation
The increasing reach and pervasiveness of AI and algorithms into everyday life raises pressing social and ethical issues for individuals and communities. Several recent deliberations, including track-and-trace for the pandemic and fight for a fairer society, have raised the urgency for critical thinking about our society and technology innovations now more than ever. Under these tremendous circumstances, we hear a great need from Oxford researchers and students for a platform to voice and exchange our concerns, and reflect and react…
ReEnTrust Second Stakeholder Workshop Summary Report
We are pleased to share with you our Second Stakeholder Workshop Summary Report, summarising key findings from our Second Stakeholder Workshop taken place on December 6th, 2019, at Mary Ward House in London. The workshop brought together participants from academia, education, NGOs and enterprises to discuss trust in relation to algorithmic decision-making services and platforms. This workshop is the second of the series. In our first stakeholder workshop (April 2019), we have explored stakeholders’ general conceptualisation of trust, in relation…
ReEnTrust Team Respond to ICO’s Consultation on Explaining AI
On 24 January, ReEnTrust team, led by Dr Philip Inglesant, provided our inputs to ICO and The Turing’s latest Consultation on Explaining AI. ReEnTrust has two interests in AI-enabled decisions: in our own research, to ensure that our own processes are trustworthy, as being compliant with GDPR, DPA compliant, as well as being transparent and responsible in our research involving people; and with respect to the topic of our research, to facilitate trust-building by users in algorithm-driven online systems. We…
ReEnTrust First Stakeholder Workshop Summary Report
We are pleased to share with you our First Stakeholder Workshop Summary Report, summarising key findings from our First Stakeholder Workshop on April 15th, 2019, taken place at the Digital Catapult Centre in London, UK. The workshop brought together participants from academia, education, NGOs and enterprises to discuss trust in relation to algorithmic decision-making services and platforms. As the first stakeholder workshop of the series, we aimed to achieve an initial understanding from the various stakeholders regarding how trust is conceptualised…
Oxford team took part in the Oxford Idea Festival 2019
On 27 October 2019, Oxford team, Dr Jun Zhao and Dr Helena Webb, took part in the Oxford Idea Festival 2019, talking to members of the public about privacy, security, and digital wellbeing. The key goal of the event is to raise the awareness of these issues by the general public by exhibiting in a local shopping centre in East Oxford and reaching out to an audience who would normally be hard to reach otherwise. The exhibition was well-attended by several…