Boxi Wu is a doctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, funded by the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership and the Balliol College Dervorguilla Scholarship. Their research investigates how the geopolitics of AI infrastructures shapes local political and cultural transformations. 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 the ethics and governance of AI and digital infrastructure in Review of International Political Economy, Big Data & Society, Philosophy & Technology, and ACM Fairness, Accountability & Transparency and AAAI/ACM AI, Ethics & Society. Their research and expert insights have been communicated in Jacobin, Time Magazine, The Economist, and The New York Times. 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.
