Aisling Third

Dr Aisling Third is a Research Fellow in the OU’s Knowledge Media Institute, where she specialises in ethics and empowerment in AI and the Web. Her background is in Maths and Philosophy, with a strong focus on the nature and logic of language and meaning, which she has applied to computer understanding of human language. She is currently investigating technical and social solutions to major global concerns about equality, exploitation, and misuse of personal data, with models where individuals assert and control their own digital lives, applied to education, healthcare, and human-data architectures.

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