Dr Ana Valdivia
Lecturer in AI, Government and Policy, Oxford Internet Institute
About
Dr Ana Valdivia is a Departmental Research Lecturer in AI, Government and Policy at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII).
Dr Valdivia investigates how datafication is transforming political, social and ecological worlds. Building on her experience as a mathematician and computer scientist, her interest lies in investigating power relationships in algorithmic governance and how AI is impacting on local communities, borders and territories.
In her research, Dr Valdivia aims to examine the eco-political impact of algorithmic systems by understanding its life cycle from natural resources extraction to electronic waste dumps and how it could jeopardise fundamental rights.
Expertise
- Artificial Intelligence
- Algorithmic governance
- AI and migration
- AI and climate change
- Surveillance technologies (facial recognition, fingerprints, etc)
- AI racism and sexism
- Datafication
Selected publications
- There is an elephant in the room: towards a critique on the use of fairness in biometrics (2022)
- Neither opaque nor transparent: A transdisciplinary methodology to investigate datafication at the EU borders (2022)
- Silicon Valley and the Environmental Costs of AI (2022)
- How fair can we go in machine learning? Assessing the boundaries of accuracy and fairness (2021)
