My current research mission is to try to use artificial intelligence to detect and really just understand online harms, in order to make the internet a safer space for everyone.Įmily: And one of the places you are particularly looking at is hate speech. Hannah Rose Kirk: Hey, I’m Hannah Rose Kirk, and I’m a researcher at the University of Oxford and the Alan Turing Institute.
Hello, I’m Emily Elias, and this is the show where we seek out the brightest minds at the University of Oxford, and we ask them the big questions.įor this one, we are talking to a researcher who struggles to explain her work to her grandparents. On this episode of the Oxford Sparks Big Questions podcast, we are asking, how do you tackle hate speech, one emoji at a time? And monitoring the hate speech proportion of these posts is getting more complicated, as emojis become a nuanced part of our daily online language.
Emily Elias: There are 187 million active users on Twitter, a day.
