About the project
Hosted by the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, part of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, the Oxford Collaboration on Theology and Artificial Intelligence (OCTAI) is a collaborative research project with the goal of developing a network of experts to address the vocational realities of AI work.
The project is collaborative and interdisciplinary, led by members of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford within a wider cross-institutional core group, and shaped by business leaders, AI engineers, and academics from Oxford, other UK universities, and international contexts.
OCTAI has given particular weight to global majority perspectives, drawing substantial participation from contributors outside the UK, continental Europe, and the USA, and from those working in roles without significant institutional control such as engineers.
One of the project’s aims is to develop vocational principles for ethically serious AI practice, now emerging publicly through the Oxford Oath and its companion Open Letter.
