Boxi Wu

Digital Social Science (2024 cohort)

Boxi (bor-shi) is a DPhil researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. Their research focuses on the politics of AI infrastructure within the context of increasing global inequality and the current climate crisis. Boxi’s DPhil is generously funded by the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership and the Balliol College Dervorguilla Scholarship. They are jointly supervised by Professor Victoria Nash and Dr Ana Valdivia.

Boxi has worked as a Researcher on the Political Geography of AI Infrastructure project at the Oxford Internet Institute with Professor Vili Lehdonvirta and is currently a member of the Oxford-Aalto University Digital Economic Security Lab (DIESL). In previous research, Boxi has published on AI ethics and the inequalities of digital infrastructure in Big Data & Society, Philosophy & Technology, ACM Fairness, Accountability & Transparency and AAAI/ACM AI, Ethics & Society. Boxi has communicated their research as an expert quoted in TIME magazine and Jacobin.

Prior to returning to academia, Boxi worked in AI ethics, technology consulting and policy research. Most recently, they worked in AI Ethics & Safety at Google DeepMind where they specialised in the ethics of LLMs and led the responsible release of frontier AI models including the initially released Gemini models.

Boxi holds an MSc in Social Science of the Internet from Oxford University, an MA in Urban Planning from the University of Melbourne and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Western Australia.