Thank you very much for the introduction. Thank you to the previous speakers. As a political theorist, you did her defo here many years ago. She would have loved to have your presentation the very beginning of my page. The experts thing is to figure out how to explain to her why last week, Martin, when my work is so crucially important that those pieces fit within just a couple of minutes of explanation about what the
oil is, and then I'll hand over to my colleagues. We will take down a great debt to give an indication of what type of research we do. For those of you that don't know, we're relatively new. I love. Every time we do have a new centre, it's too great because I feel like an old hand. We've been around since 2001 and we were set up to be a multidisciplinary centre based within social sciences, but multidisciplinary focussing on the societal implications of
digital technologies. It's funny looking back, actually. I mean, the questions that we are asking now are many in many ways the same questions that you're asking in 2001, but perhaps applied to new and innovative technologies. But I think that, you know, so much of what the new institute is going to do is is hugely exciting to us. And I'm frankly very delighted to see know significant investment in this field and new opportunities for us to collaborate both with the humanities,
but actually across the way. University is the chart that Niger presented showed. So, yes, congratulations on those that helped make this happen. I work in this area. I would say a sort of maybe threefold. The first is, if you like, in the very broadest sense. So what you want an angel covered at the very beginning in the sort of, you know, the array of different topics and areas is just fundamental to what we do. So, you know, big, broad questions
about. About innovation, about the development of new tools, new ways of using artificial intelligence to develop new products, new forms and functions of those in everyday life. Questions about what this means for how we regulate and govern these technologies. This this is just our everyday business. And it's something that that all of my now nearly 50 faculty are frankly engaged in. However, it is a much narrower sense in which actually quite the questions of ethics and I arise in a number
of very specific sort of research has portfolios to which you're going to hear about tonight. Since 2014, I'm pleased to note that we've had in-house philosophers. We've had IVC in the very early days of the Let me on if you're ready with his work around information, ethics, addressing questions like know sort of moral, artificial Egil evil or the morality of artificial agents that that's been with us is safe runabouts
for five, six years. But actually, we do not just have philosophers looking at these questions now. So we brought in several philosophers on top of each on it, one of which you can going to hear from shortly. But we also now have lawyers like Sandra who's going to speak to you. We have political scientists. We have data scientists again, though, whose work is fundamentally concerned with questions of ethics
and I ised writ large. And in those cases, it covers issues such as things like what constitutes fairness or unfairness, discrimination, if you like, in the uses of I political questions about once you once you maybe identified principles of fairness, how you might go about regulating for those or holding companies to account.
We cover applied questions such as, again, if you if you identify unfair practises or sort of sources of lack of diversity in data collection, what does that mean for innovation?
What does that mean for data collection? What does it mean for privacy? So if you like the very fact that a multidisciplinary means that we aren't just approaching this, certainly from a philosophical angle, but we are taking some of these sort of core philosophical questions and playing them out across different disciplines and different topics, we hope, all with the aim of improving not just research outputs,
research, understanding these issues, but also, if you like, societal understanding and societal practises. So if we have a sort of a broad focus, this very narrow focus in specific projects, again, which we'll hear about shortly. I just want to flag up. But we also have a focus on this in our teaching. We have full graduate degrees, two masters. One is social data science. One is social science, the Internet, two corresponding defo
programmes. And in each of those, again, these broad questions around ethics. And I arrive in different places. We actually have got pure philosophy paper, for example, and one of our master's degrees in another. We we embrace the core questions about what things like fairness and transparency would look like in the practise of social data science. So again, I really applaud, I think, the desire to ensure that the work of the new institute will also include content for new courses,
new option papers. Certainly we find it immensely satisfying experience to deliver those to our students. I'm happy to take questions later on on what the eyes I was doing in this area, but it's my great pleasure to hand over to my ex. Such as?