Susan Oman

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Power and Difference in the time of responsible AI at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com | Susan Oman Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities! "Your doctoral research project will be designed by you to respond to...

Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities!

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Who should have a voice in shaping AI?

The Public Voices in AI project worked with communities and public participants to explore how people can help guide research, policy and development.

Watch the video: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/publi...

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Delighted to be honoured with this award. Read more about us and the project, here - covered by @sheffielduni.bsky.social sheffield.ac.uk/news/univers...

Data and AI public engagement: Community of Practice On Wednesday 8 October 2025 at 2pm we will hold the twelfth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

🪧 Data & AI public engagement community of practice. On Wed 8 Oct 2pm we will be joined by @gileslane.bsky.social @raeng.org.uk on their People's AI Stewardship Summits & Anna Beckett on evaluating @civicdatacoop.bsky.social Residents’ Assembly.

🔗 Register at connectedbydata.org/events/2025...

Image of Sarah who has MND and a new AI voice that sounds like her, captured from a fragment of audio in an old family video

A real delight to be involved in today's @bbcaccessall.bsky.social about Sarah and her family.
I don't often get to comment on the positive impacts of AI!
TEXT: lnkd.in/eCYynpYH
PODCAST: lnkd.in/e-WyQywZ

Dr Susan Oman on BBC Look North, screenshot of her on BBC sofa with the text of Dr Susan Oman, Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield, BBC Look North

Did you catch @suoman.bsky.social on the news last night talking about AI MPs?! Head to 11:44 to catch up: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Mark Sewards becomes first MP to create himself as an AI bot Mark Sewards MP says the chatbot version of himself will allow people to ask for help with local issues.

I spoke to BBC news yesterday - this time about an MP who has commissioned a bot of himself to speak with constituents. I outlined issues as I saw them. Some of which are reported here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The recording of our webinar with @cianooo.bsky.social and @suoman.bsky.social right here... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoGu... @stsucl.bsky.social

Wake Up to Money - Let's make a deal - BBC Sounds Sean Farrington has the latest as the UK and US sign their tariff deal at the G7 Summit.

Our CMI Theme Lead for AI & Inequality, Dr. Susan Oman, was on BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake Up to Money this morning with Sean Farrington, discussing the ethics of AI in recruitment! Listen from 43:30: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#AI #Ethics #Recruitment #CMI @suoman.bsky.social

- ESRC Digital Good Network

During their work with
@digitalgoodnet.bsky.social‬'s PVAI programme the People's Advisory Panel were particularly animated (pun intended!) about the work @suoman.bsky.social‬ was doing with artist Kitty McEwan.

Let's Talk About AI - a webtoon - has now launched!
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- ESRC Digital Good Network

Let's Talk About AI launched yesterday
Our webtoon on evidence and inclusion in AI discussions digitalgood.net/dg-outputs/t...

Govt commitment to a technical upskilling approach to AI literacy is inadequate.
The webtoon is our commitment to nurturing broader understanding of AI - for EVERYONE.

Yes, I think that partially explains some of what's going on. Do join us later to see what Jack and Cian say, though. These are their survey findings. I also think a recording will be made available afterwards

Hi Brigitte, would you like to elaborate? I think the answer is almost certainly yes, but want to be sure I understand the question. :)

TOMORROW - hear what @jackstilgoe.bsky.social & @cianooo.bsky.social from a survey of 4.5k AI researcher. Hear what I found reviewing 320 pieces of international evidence.
ALSO - the public launch of the Let's Talk About AI webtoon 😍 by Kitty McEwan

Our drop-out and pace miracle is harming students’ health and learning As universities are again urged to provide support to struggling students, Jim Dickinson reviews the evidence - and finds our system of rapid graduate production a key potential cause of pressure and...

This week on Wonkhe: As universities are again urged to provide support to struggling students, Jim Dickinson reviews the evidence - and finds our system of rapid graduate production a key potential cause of pressure and harm

Science Cafe - Responding to AI - BBC Sounds Adam Walton explores UK research on artificial intelligence.

🎙️ Dr @suoman.bsky.social joined BBC Radio Wales to talk AI, art, power & public engagement — featuring #ConstantWashingMachine, Public Voices in AI & broader work at @shefcmi.bsky.social.

🎧 Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#AI #CMI #ResponsibleAI #PublicEngagement #FRAIM

Science Cafe - Responding to AI - BBC Sounds Adam Walton explores UK research on artificial intelligence.

While I was in the MRI tube this eve, I was on the radio: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., reflecting on the meaning, power and politics of AI, and using art to communicate AI to people

I also talked about Blast Theory's #ConstantWashingMachine - curated by @hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social

Join us to hear about what we found from studying AI researchers and what they say about public reception of AI. Findings from @jackstilgoe.bsky.social/ @cianooo.bsky.social's survey of 4.5k AI experts and the review I led of 320 pieces of international evidence.

Nate said its app’s users could buy from any e-commerce site with a single click, thanks to AI. In reality, however, Nate relied heavily on hundreds of human contractors in a call center in the Philippines to manually complete those purchases, the DOJ’s Southern District of New York alleges. Saniger raised millions in venture funding by claiming that Nate was able to transact online “without human intervention,” except for edge cases where the AI failed to complete a transaction. But despite Nate acquiring some AI technology and hiring data scientists, its app’s actual automation rate was effectively 0%, the DOJ claims.

tbh, the AI industry is full of fraud, and fraudsters like this
techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/f...

Data and AI public engagement: Community of Practice On Wednesday 12 March 2025 at 2pm we will hold the sixth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

🗣️ Registration is open for the next session for those interested in public engagement in data & AI.

Speakers from @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social will be talking about outputs from the Public Voices in AI project.

💻 Zoom
🗓️ Wed 9 Apr, 2-3:15pm GMT
🎟️ Free, register: connectedbydata.org/events/2025-...

The five co-authors of this report on copyright, AI and the arts are all from the science and technology sectors. Not one artist or creator among them.

Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century | TechPolicy.Press To resist AI hype, we must not reassert the fiction that we could “return” to a functional democracy, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

“Utopian or dystopian, both forms of AI hype are united in one sense: they respond to the only vision of a future anybody is offering at all.”

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📣 72% of the UK public say laws and regulations would increase their comfort with AI. This is an increase from 62% in 2022/23.

Explore the findings from the second wave of our nationally representative survey in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute: attitudestoai.uk

Making good Insights on AI and public good from diverse UK communities

Closing the gap between policy ambition and publics’ views of AI is important, so that technology development aligns with public expectations.

Our deliberative engagement with diverse communities looked at ‘public good’ and its relationship to AI.

www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/ai-pu...

US communications regulator to create council to counter China technology threats Move comes as FCC’s remit has broadened in face of hostile acts by Beijing

US communications regulator to create council to counter China technology threats - on.ft.com/3Fjxy9B via @financialtimes.com

If you are doing/contemplating research about loneliness amongst older people, read our article exploring ethical issues whilst interviewing older people about loneliness. We wrote the paper we wished we had read before we started our interviews about loneliness! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Engaging people on data and AI: An unconference on giving people and communities a powerful say on public sector technologies Unconferences are participant-driven meetups that focus on sharing, learning and community building. This unconference is for people (particularly inside the public sector) who are interested in ensuring that public, community and worker voices are heard in decisions about data, digital and AI.

Are you working with communities concerned about public sector uses of data, digital & AI? Do they want to make their voices heard?

We're hosting an unconference, with @dxw.com, @projectsbyif.bsky.social and @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social in London on 20 March.
connectedbydata.org/events/2025...

Assuring Inclusive AI: Reviewing Evidence as a Call to Inclusive AI Action | TechPolicy.Press Being armed with impactful evidence of quality and inclusion assurance is our best route to ethical and inclusive AI, writes Susan Oman.

Lots of talk of inclusive AI, but what does that need to look like? How can we learn from evidence that tells us (and evidence that distracts us?) www.techpolicy.press/assuring-inc...

Blast Theory are giving away limited edition artworks about #responsibleAI in a FREE AUCTION.

Check out @blasttheory.bsky.social's instagram on how to win: www.instagram.com/p/DGlRCRZI7K...