The Year of 2024

Jun Zhao
Last updated on Dec 19, 2024 3 min read

While 2024 is drawing close to an end, we look back at Oxford CCAI of 2024 and share a few upcoming dates for 2025.

Launch of CHAILD – Children’s Agency In the age of AI: Leveraging InterDisciplinarity

We are delighted to announce that we have received an award from the UKRI Cross-Disciplinary Response Mode to support our collaboration with philosophers from Oxford and learning scientists from UCL. This two-year grant, ranked among the top 3 in a highly competitive call, will enable us to explore the definition and measurement of children’s digital agency through a user-centred approach.

The project is set to begin in February 2025, and we look forward to welcoming three new colleagues to our team in the new year. Stay tuned for the launch of our white paper in March 2025, where we will share key insights and recommendations.

Learn more about our work at chaild.org.

Launch of AI Ethics Global Challenge

Supported by Oxford’s Reuben College and in collaboration with FamStudio, we are proud to announce the launch of the AI Ethics Global Challenge Initiative (visit our website). This innovative initiative aims to bridge the gap between academic research and practical applications by co-creating ethical design guidelines in partnership with designers. Our pre-launch phase, including a Call for Interest, has already been announced (see details on LinkedIn), and we are thrilled to build momentum as we prepare for major announcements and activities in 2025.

Major research outputs in 2024.

The team published six papers in top-tier academic venues, including three journal publication. Some highlights are below:

  • Challenges and opportunities in translating ethical AI principles into practice for children. Nature Machine Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00805-x
    • A discussion of current AI ethics principles in the context of children and the challenges of translating these principles into practice
  • CHAITok: A Proof-of-Concept System Supporting Children’s Sense of Data Autonomy on Social Media. In CHI24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642294
    • A first digital prototype enabling children to exercise data autonomy on a social media-like platform
    • Breakthrough insights of children (10-15yo)’s perception of data autonomy and how they would like to be supported
  • Data-Driven Parenting: Robust Research and Policy Needed to Ensure that Parental Digital Monitoring Promotes a Good Digital Society. https://oxfordccai.org/publication/policy-2024-09/
    • Policy paper for the British Academy
    • Cross-disciplinary insights regarding the challenges of providing better support for digital parenting both for policymakers and technologies
    • Learn more from our podcast with ParentZone

Upcoming events in 2025

  • 9 January: Jun to present at the Round Square panel with Head Teachers from all over the world
  • 20 January: Closing date for the first CHAILD RA post
  • 1 February: Official launch of CHAILD
  • End of February: CHAILD white paper launch event
  • 26 April – 1 May: CHI 2024 at Japan
  • 3-4 July: Oxford workshop on privacy in digital China