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The MachinistAI and Public Services Podcast: UCL Uncovering Politics (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: AI and Public ServicesPub date: 2025-02-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationArtificial intelligence is increasingly being touted as a game-changer across various sectors, including public services. But while AI presents significant opportunities for improving efficiency and effectiveness, concerns about fairness, equity, and past failures in public sector IT transformations loom large. And, of course, the idea of tech moguls like Elon Musk wielding immense influence over our daily lives is unsettling for man...2025-02-2042 min
UCL Uncovering PoliticsAI and Public ServicesArtificial intelligence is increasingly being touted as a game-changer across various sectors, including public services. But while AI presents significant opportunities for improving efficiency and effectiveness, concerns about fairness, equity, and past failures in public sector IT transformations loom large. And, of course, the idea of tech moguls like Elon Musk wielding immense influence over our daily lives is unsettling for many.So, what are the real opportunities AI offers for public services? What risks need to be managed? And how well are governments—particularly in the UK—rising to the challenge?In this episode, we d...2025-02-1342 min
The Expert FactorHow will Keir Starmer's AI plan change government (and your lives)?The robots are taking our jobs, we’re going to be a nation run by chatbots, and an all-seeing, all-powerful computer is set to know everything about all of us.Well, not really. But Keir Starmer says AI is poised to generate “incredible change in our country”So what exactly is he talking about? Helen Margetts, professor of Society and the Internet at the University of Oxford and director of the Alan Turing Institute’s public policy programme, joins Hannah and Paul to...2025-01-1841 min
Sideways25 Years of the 21st Century: 2. The Age of MistrustHave we lost faith in institutions, politicians - and even money? Some people say there is an onslaught of misinformation and a battle for truth. So who do we trust now?In this series, we’re remembering some of the big events of this century and asking how they’re shaping us.Matthew is joined by Margaret MacMillan a historian and author, Rachel Botsman the author of three books on trust and Helen Margetts, a Professor of Society and the Internet at the University of Oxford.Production team
Editor: Sara Wadeson
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Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoAI in public policy: opportunities and challengesContributor(s): Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Andrew Murray, Dr Dorottya Sallai, Chloe Smith | In a world increasingly shaped by digital transformation, AI and data science present new opportunities to change policymaking in nearly all areas of policy. Yet the capabilities of these emerging technologies are still unfolding and need to be better understood, both in terms of their benefits and their limitations.
This event marks the publication of the most recent issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, which brings together contributions from a range of disciplines - from philosophy to statistics, government and law - to reflect together on...2024-11-051h 27Latest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfAI in public policy: opportunities and challengesContributor(s): Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Andrew Murray, Dr Dorottya Sallai, Chloe Smith | In a world increasingly shaped by digital transformation, AI and data science present new opportunities to change policymaking in nearly all areas of policy. Yet the capabilities of these emerging technologies are still unfolding and need to be better understood, both in terms of their benefits and their limitations.
This event marks the publication of the most recent issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, which brings together contributions from a range of disciplines - from philosophy to statistics, government and law - to reflect together on...2024-11-051h 27Latest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | AudioAI in public policy: opportunities and challengesContributor(s): Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Andrew Murray, Dr Dorottya Sallai, Chloe Smith | In a world increasingly shaped by digital transformation, AI and data science present new opportunities to change policymaking in nearly all areas of policy. Yet the capabilities of these emerging technologies are still unfolding and need to be better understood, both in terms of their benefits and their limitations.
This event marks the publication of the most recent issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, which brings together contributions from a range of disciplines - from philosophy to statistics, government and law - to reflect together on...2024-11-051h 27Latest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoAI in public policy: opportunities and challengesContributor(s): Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Andrew Murray, Dr Dorottya Sallai, Chloe Smith | In a world increasingly shaped by digital transformation, AI and data science present new opportunities to change policymaking in nearly all areas of policy. Yet the capabilities of these emerging technologies are still unfolding and need to be better understood, both in terms of their benefits and their limitations.
This event marks the publication of the most recent issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, which brings together contributions from a range of disciplines - from philosophy to statistics, government and law - to reflect together on...2024-11-051h 27All items | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfAI in public policy: opportunities and challengesContributor(s): Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Andrew Murray, Dr Dorottya Sallai, Chloe Smith | In a world increasingly shaped by digital transformation, AI and data science present new opportunities to change policymaking in nearly all areas of policy. Yet the capabilities of these emerging technologies are still unfolding and need to be better understood, both in terms of their benefits and their limitations.
This event marks the publication of the most recent issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, which brings together contributions from a range of disciplines - from philosophy to statistics, government and law - to reflect together on...2024-11-051h 27All items | LSE Public lectures and events | AudioAI in public policy: opportunities and challengesContributor(s): Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Andrew Murray, Dr Dorottya Sallai, Chloe Smith | In a world increasingly shaped by digital transformation, AI and data science present new opportunities to change policymaking in nearly all areas of policy. Yet the capabilities of these emerging technologies are still unfolding and need to be better understood, both in terms of their benefits and their limitations.
This event marks the publication of the most recent issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, which brings together contributions from a range of disciplines - from philosophy to statistics, government and law - to reflect together on...2024-11-051h 27All items | LSE Public lectures and events | All media typesAI in public policy: opportunities and challengesContributor(s): Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Andrew Murray, Dr Dorottya Sallai, Chloe Smith | In a world increasingly shaped by digital transformation, AI and data science present new opportunities to change policymaking in nearly all areas of policy. Yet the capabilities of these emerging technologies are still unfolding and need to be better understood, both in terms of their benefits and their limitations.
This event marks the publication of the most recent issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, which brings together contributions from a range of disciplines - from philosophy to statistics, government and law - to reflect together on...2024-11-051h 27Latest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | All media typesAI in public policy: opportunities and challengesContributor(s): Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Andrew Murray, Dr Dorottya Sallai, Chloe Smith | In a world increasingly shaped by digital transformation, AI and data science present new opportunities to change policymaking in nearly all areas of policy. Yet the capabilities of these emerging technologies are still unfolding and need to be better understood, both in terms of their benefits and their limitations.
This event marks the publication of the most recent issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, which brings together contributions from a range of disciplines - from philosophy to statistics, government and law - to reflect together on...2024-11-051h 27
ePODstemologyRealising the potential of digital governance with Aaron Maniam“Digital governance” is a term commonly used to refer to the transformative potential of integrating contemporary technological advances into the day-to-day activities of government. Electronic filing of tax returns, text message reminders to get your vaccine booster, medical records that can follow your around as you change doctor’s offices – all are examples of digital governance. Digital governance holds much promise, most obviously in terms of efficiency and convenience, but also many risks such as cybersecurity breeches, creeping paternalism, and the alienation of citizens from the activities of their own political representatives. In this episode, ePODstemology hosts Dr Aaron Maniam f...2024-09-1158 minLatest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoAI, Fake News and the MediaContributor(s): Dr Nick Anstead, Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Julie Posetti | They explore the difference between this election in 2024 and previous ones with regard using AI and what the next Government should do (if anything) to protect the democratic process.2024-07-0441 minAll items | LSE Public lectures and events | AudioAI, Fake News and the MediaContributor(s): Dr Nick Anstead, Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Julie Posetti | They explore the difference between this election in 2024 and previous ones with regard using AI and what the next Government should do (if anything) to protect the democratic process.2024-07-0441 minLatest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | All media typesAI, Fake News and the MediaContributor(s): Dr Nick Anstead, Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Julie Posetti | They explore the difference between this election in 2024 and previous ones with regard using AI and what the next Government should do (if anything) to protect the democratic process.2024-07-0441 minAll items | LSE Public lectures and events | All media typesAI, Fake News and the MediaContributor(s): Dr Nick Anstead, Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Julie Posetti | They explore the difference between this election in 2024 and previous ones with regard using AI and what the next Government should do (if anything) to protect the democratic process.2024-07-0441 minLatest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoAI, Fake News and the MediaContributor(s): Dr Nick Anstead, Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Julie Posetti | They explore the difference between this election in 2024 and previous ones with regard using AI and what the next Government should do (if anything) to protect the democratic process.2024-07-0441 minAll items | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfAI, Fake News and the MediaContributor(s): Dr Nick Anstead, Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Julie Posetti | They explore the difference between this election in 2024 and previous ones with regard using AI and what the next Government should do (if anything) to protect the democratic process.2024-07-0441 minLatest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | AudioAI, Fake News and the MediaContributor(s): Dr Nick Anstead, Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Julie Posetti | They explore the difference between this election in 2024 and previous ones with regard using AI and what the next Government should do (if anything) to protect the democratic process.2024-07-0441 minLatest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfAI, Fake News and the MediaContributor(s): Dr Nick Anstead, Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Julie Posetti | They explore the difference between this election in 2024 and previous ones with regard using AI and what the next Government should do (if anything) to protect the democratic process.2024-07-0441 min
Agile RabbitHow to Fix the InternetA lively discussion with some of the world’s leading thinkers as we reassess our relationship with the internet and set out a positive vision of how it can be improved so we can reshape the digital world into a space where we can all flourish.
In partnership with the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Exeter
HELEN MARGETTS OBE
Director of the Public Policy Programme, Professor of Society and the Internet
The Alan Turing Institute
University of Oxford
SILVIA MILANO
Lecturer in Philosophy of Data and Data Ethics
Institute for Data Science and Artificial In...2023-02-1759 min
Zed Ed PodcastTime Capsule - The Last Episode with The Original MembersHello everyone! In this episode, Heather, Cam, Helen and Howard record one last time together to discuss what is next for the Zed Ed Podcast, how far we have come and to show their love for the project that they have put their hearts and souls into over the last year and a half. They are so excited for what is coming next, and can not express enough how much gratitude they feel for all of the support received throughout this process.
Special thank you to ...
Dayna Margetts, Carmen Denby, Matt Stewart, Michael Kormany, Trina M...2022-01-2533 min
Shaping the Post-COVID WorldThe Rise and Rise of Big TechContributor(s): Pilita Clark, Professor Helen Margetts, Chi Onwurah MP | What will the long-term consequences of the pandemic be for the rise of new communication technologies and the changing nature of work?
Pilita Clark (@pilitaclark) is an Associate Editor and business columnist at the Financial Times.
Helen Margetts (@HelenMargetts) is Professor of Society and the Internet at the University of Oxford and the Programme Director for Public Policy at The Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
Chi Onwurah (@ChiOnwurah) MP is the Shadow Minister for Science, Research & Digital.
Robin Archer is Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme...2020-10-281h 29
KickBack - The Global Anticorruption Podcast30. Samuel Power on (corrupt) party financing and the political economy of Facebook advertisingThe interview starts with Sam outlining how the documentary about Eliot Spitzer, called Client 9, got him interested in corruption and how it inspired him to study an MA in corruption research at the University of Sussex.
Sam describes the research questions he sought to answer with his dissertation on party financing and corruption. Namely, he unpicks the relationship between money and politics, using interviews to examine whether the amount of state subsidy has an effect on perceptions about corruption and which types of corruption it brings about. Here he builds on Michael Johnston’s work on syndromes of corruption
Sam de...2020-05-0456 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesIAS Turbulence: Helen Margetts on 'Political Turbulence'by Professor Helen Margetts (University of Oxford)2018-10-1144 min
The Governance PodcastNudge: Past Limitations and Future PossibilitiesTune in to the Governance Podcast with Professor Peter John of King’s College London, who discusses the history of behavioral economics, the limits of “nudge,” and how citizens can be empowered to “nudge” their political authorities back. Learn more about how to enhance democratic accountability in the policy-making process from a key voice in the field.
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Peter John is Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He was previously Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University College London. He is known for his work on agenda-settin...2018-06-121h 02
Diálogos y debates Fundación Rafael del Pino¿Pueden las nuevas tecnologías salvar la democracia?Con motivo de la celebración del Spain GovTech Venture Day, el 11 de abril de 2018 tuvo lugar, en la Fundación Rafael del Pino, el diálogo sobre si la tecnología puede salvar la democracia.
Helen Margetts, directora del Oxford Internet Institute, explicó que la relación entre tecnología y democracia permite una mayor participación política de la gente. Compartir, hacer click en un like es un pequeño acto de participación política, pero ese pequeño acto puede escalar y hacer las cosas grandes, por ejemplo, la campaña para el control de armas en Estad...2018-04-1352 minDiálogos y debates Fundación Rafael del Pino¿Pueden las nuevas tecnologías salvar la democracia?Con motivo de la celebración del Spain GovTech Venture Day, el 11 de abril de 2018 tuvo lugar, en la Fundación Rafael del Pino, el diálogo sobre si la tecnología puede salvar la democracia.
Helen Margetts, directora del Oxford Internet Institute, explicó que la relación entre tecnología y democracia permite una mayor participación política de la gente. Compartir, hacer click en un like es un pequeño acto de participación política, pero ese pequeño acto puede escalar y hacer las cosas grandes, por ejemplo, la campaña para el control de armas en Estad...2018-04-1352 min
ScienceUncutPolitical Turbulence: How Social Media Turn Political Mobilization Upside DownHelen Margetts, professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK, held her talk as one of the keynote speakers at the Herrenhausen Conference "Society through the Lens of the Digital" which took place from May 31 till June 2, 2017, in Hanover. At the conference, the experts discussed how the humanities and social sciences deal with the social challenges of digitization. The introductory words are held by Florian Süssenguth, acatech, Germany.
The Herrenhausen Conference "Society through the Lens of the Digital" explored the role of the social sciences and the humanities in a society saturated with debates on the effects o...2017-05-3100 min
FT Tech TonicPolitical disruption and the internetHelen Margetts, head of the Oxford Internet Institute, talks to the FT's Madhumita Murgia about fake news, echo chambers, big data and why we need more research to be able to combat the "pathologies" of the internet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-03-2920 min
RSA EventsHow Social Media Shape Collective ActionAcademics Helen Margetts and Peter John explain how social media are now inextricably intertwined with the political behaviour of ordinary citizens. Margetts and John visit the RSA to show large-scale data and experimentation that explore how such dynamics inject turbulence into politics, which is increasingly characterized by instability, unpredictability and often unsustainability. These patterns of mobilization bring us shocks and surprises (from Jeremy Corbyn to Donald Trump) which traditional political institutions struggle to accommodate, with profound implications for models of democracy.
2016-11-0153 min
Green Templeton CollegePolitics by Numbers: How Social Media Shape Collective ActionProfessor Helen Margetts, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute and Professor of Society and the Internet, University of Oxford gives a talk on social media and how it can shape collective action. The internet and social media bring political change, allowing 'tiny acts' of political participation which can scale up to large-scale mobilisation of millions - but mostly fail.
These new forms of mobilisation increase instability and uncertainty in political systems, challenging policy-makers in both democratic and authoritarian regimes. But they also generate new sources of large-scale data.
Drawing on research carried out for the new book Political Turbulence: How...2016-07-2852 min
Technology and DemocracyTechnology and Democracy - 26 April 2016 - Helen Margetts: Social Media and Political TurbulenceSpeaker - Helen Margetts, OII
Respondent - Sharath Srinivasan, POLIS, Cambridge
The last few years have seen increasingly frenzied speculation about the role of social media in political mobilisation. In an important recent book Helen Margetts and her colleagues report on research drawing on large-scale data generated from the Internet and real-world events to show how mobilisations that succeed are unpredictable, unstable and often unsustainable. To reach a better understanding of this unruly force in the political world, the researchers have used experiments that test how social media influence citizens when they are deciding whether or not to participate. They...2016-05-161h 15
Start the WeekJonathan FranzenOn Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe talks to the American writer Jonathan Franzen about his latest novel, Purity. One of Franzen's characters compares the internet with the East German Republic and he satirises the utopian ideas of the apparatchik web-users. The head of the Oxford Internet Institute Helen Margetts counters with her research on the success and failure of political action via social media. The artist Tacita Dean laments the ubiquity of digital at the expense of film, and the financial journalist Gillian Tett roots out tunnel vision - both personal and business - in her new book on...2015-10-0541 min
The Frontline ClubThe Trade Off: Individual Privacy and National SecurityPrivacy of the individual, secrecy of the state and national security have been in sharp focus in past weeks due to the leak of material from the US’s National Security Agency (NSA).
It has been revealed that under the so-called Prism programme millions of phone calls have been gathered and Internet use has been monitored on a massive scale. In the UK there are suggestions that the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has also accessed the material.
The chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, Conservative MP Sir Malcolm Rifkind, told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme “in order to protect the pu...2013-07-101h 30
Camden Community RadioWhats on 17th June 2013The weekend of 15th & 16th has the first ever (Emily) Wilding Festival at St George’s Church, Bloomsbury; Camden events for National Bike Festival all week; British Library seminar on impact of Social Media with Professors Helen Margetts and David Gauntlett; Open City Docs Festival comes ot Euston, Bloomsbury Theatre and University College. There is advance warning of the rooftop Bar-B-Q at Maiden Lane Community Centre on Saturday 29th June and news of the Summer Holiday PlayScheme at Camden Square which has breakfast club, extended day and core day for children aged 4 to 12 years of age. APPLY NOW at Ma...2013-06-1505 min
NCRM Research Methods Festival 2012 filmed sessionsLeadership without leaders? Starters and followers in on-line collective action by Professor Helen MargettsHelen Margetts talks about experimental ways to look at collective political behaviour on the Internet.2012-07-0500 min
Keble CollegeDelete!Viktor Mayer-Schönberger looks at the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger discusses the themes of his new book 'Delete' with Helen Margetts, Professor of Society and the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. 'Delete' looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us to find and share information as never before, but we do not always fo...2010-05-1032 min
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and SeminarsDelete!Viktor Mayer-Schönberger looks at the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger discusses the themes of his new book 'Delete' with Helen Margetts, Professor of Society and the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. 'Delete' looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us to find and share information as never before, but we do not always fo...2010-05-1032 min