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—Claude Shannon

Oxford Launches BOLD Lab With 80 AI Researchers to Rethink How AI Learns

More than 80 researchers from the University of Oxford, UCL and Imperial College London are coming together through the BOLD Lab to pursue fundamental AI research. Photo: Oxford Engineering Science

Oxford has officially launched the British Open-ended Learning and Discovery (BOLD) Lab, a UKRI-funded AI research initiative bringing together more than 80 researchers from Oxford, UCL and Imperial College London to pursue new approaches to fundamental AI research.

LLMs Alter Meaning of Social Media Posts on Controversial Topics: Oxford Study

Representational image. An Oxford-led study finds AI writing tools systematically shift the stance of social media posts on contested topics. (Image: Freepik)

Large language models often change the direction of social media posts on controversial topics even when explicitly instructed to preserve the original meaning, an Oxford-led study finds.