Publications

Peer Reviewed

2026

• Jessica Woodgate, Daniel E. Collins, Yining Yuan, and Nirav Ajmeri. Re-Framing Transparency, Interpretability, and Explainability for Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organisations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE) at AAMAS, May 2026, p. 1-16. PDF.
• Huw Day, Adrianna Jezierska, and Jessica Woodgate. Ignore All Previous Instructions: Jailbreaking as a de-escalatory peace building practise to resist LLM social media bots. Proceedings of the AI for Peace Workshop at ICLR, April 2026, p. 1-6. PDF.

2025

• Matimba Swana, Avgi Stavrou, Ella Maule, Helen McGloin, Khulud Alharthi, Jessica Woodgate, Richard Mawle, Kostas Karachalios and Elena Dieckmann. Assertions in Ethics of Environmental Robotics. Crisis or Redemption with AI and Robotics? The Dawn of a New Era. ICRES 2025. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, volume 1556. p. 1-3.
• Jessica Woodgate. Ethical Decision-Making in Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), May 2025, p. 1-3. PDF.
• Jessica Woodgate and Nirav Ajmeri. Combining Normative Ethics Principles to Learn Prosocial Behaviour. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), May 2025, p. 1-3. PDF. Video.
• Jessica Woodgate, Paul Marshall, and Nirav Ajmeri. Operationalising Rawlsian Ethics for Fairness in Norm Learning Agents. Proceedings of the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), February 2025, p. 1-9. PDF. Video.

2024

• Jessica Woodgate and Nirav Ajmeri. Macro Ethics Principles for Responsible AI Systems: Taxonomy and Future Directions. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), May 2024, pages 1-39. PDF.

2023

• Jessica Woodgate. Ethical Principles for Reasoning about Value Preferences. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society (AIES), Student Track, Montreal, August 2023, pages 972-974. PDF.

2022

• Jessica Woodgate and Nirav Ajmeri. Macro Ethics for Governing Equitable Sociotechnical Systems. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Blue Sky Idea Track, Auckland, May 2022, pages 1824-1828. PDF.

Policy Briefings

2026

• Jessica Woodgate. Data centres in Wales: How will Wales manage a rapidly growing industry?, Senedd Research. 31st July 2026.

Blog Posts

2026

• Jessica Woodgate. Trust is a verb: how to reimagine confidence in health systems, Data Ethics Club. 8th April 2026.
• Jessica Woodgate. Do AI Companions Understand?, Data Ethics Club. 11th March 2026.
• Jessica Woodgate. “Turning right”? An experimental study on the political value shift in large language models, Data Ethics Club. 11th February 2026.
• Jessica Woodgate. Global datacentre electricity consumption is not correlated with data demand: Responding to implausible assumptions and flawed modelling in Castro et al. (2024), Data Ethics Club. 21st January 2026.

2025

• Jessica Woodgate. AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking, Data Ethics Club. 3rd December 2025.
• Jessica Woodgate. Oura Wants Its Wearables to Revolutionize Pregnancy Studies, Data Ethics Club. 12th November 2025.
• Jessica Woodgate. Datacentres in the UK, Data Ethics Club. 11th November 2025.
• Jessica Woodgate. Henrietta Lacks, the Tuskegee Experiment, and Ethical Data Collection, Data Ethics Club. 30th October 2025.
• Jessica Woodgate. AI Snake Oil, Data Ethics Club. 11th June 2025.
• Jessica Woodgate. UK announces AI funding for teachers: how this technology could change the profession, Data Ethics Club. 30th April 2025.
• Jessica Woodgate. Understanding and supporting the mental health and professional quality of life of academic mental health researchers: results from a cross-sectional survey, Data Ethics Club. 16th April 2025.
• Jessica Woodgate. The Political Economy of Death in the Age of Information: A Critical Approach to the Digital Afterlife Industry, Data Ethics Club. 2nd April 2025.
• Jessica Woodgate. The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done: AlphaFold, Data Ethics Club. 19th March 2025.
• Jessica Woodgate. How It’s Unfair to Use Personality Tests in Hiring (International Women’s Day Special), Data Ethics Club. 5th March 2025.
• Jessica Woodgate. OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us, Data Ethics Club. 19th February 2025.
• Jessica Woodgate. Data Ethics Club: New Year's Resolutions Special, Data Ethics Club. 22nd January 2025.

2024

• Jessica Woodgate. Ask Me Anything! How ChatGPT Got Hyped Into Being, Data Ethics Club. 18th December 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. Visuals of AI in the Military Domain: Beyond ‘Killer Robots’ and towards Better Images?, Data Ethics Club. 4th December 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. A giant biotechnology company might be about to go bust. What will happen to the millions of people’s DNA it holds?, Data Ethics Club. 20th November 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. Data Ethics Club: Creating a collaborative space to discuss data ethics, Data Ethics Club. 6th November 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. Transparent communication of evidence does not undermine public trust in evidence, Data Ethics Club. 28th October 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. Time to reality check the promises of machine learning-powered precision medicine, Data Ethics Club. 10th October 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. ChatGPT is Bullsh*t, Data Ethics Club. 25th September 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. Data Feminism, Data Ethics Club. 1st August 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. How AI could save or destroy education, Data Ethics Club. 4th June 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. The Myers-Briggs Test Has Been Debunked Time and Again. Why Do Companies Still Use It?, Data Ethics Club. 22nd May 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop, Data Ethics Club. 21st May 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. Artificial Intelligence Act, Data Ethics Club. 7th May 2024
• Jessica Woodgate. Decolonial AI, Data Ethics Club. 27th March 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. Values in AI Image Systems, Data Ethics Club. 13th March 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find, Data Ethics Club. 28th February 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. The Ethics of Chatbots, Data Ethics Club. 14th February 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. Duolingo cuts workers as it relies more on AI, Data Ethics Club. 31st January 2024.
• Jessica Woodgate. New Years Resolutions 2024, Data Ethics Club. 17th January 2024.

2023

• Jessica Woodgate. Anatomy of an AI-Powered Malicious Social Botnet, Data Ethics Club. 6th December 2023.
• Jessica Woodgate. Data Ethics Checklist at Seattle Children’s Hospital, Data Ethics Club. 22nd November 2023.
• Jessica Woodgate. Dimensions of Data Labour, Data Ethics Club. 8th November 2023.
• Jessica Woodgate. Sharing Children's Data Online, Data Ethics Club. 25th October 2023.
• Jessica Woodgate. Is Retail the Next Sector to be Hit by a Privacy Scandal?, Data Ethics Club. 11th October 2023.
• Jessica Woodgate. Data Week 2023 Special: The Real Danger of ChatGPT, Data Ethics Club. 5th June 2023.
• Jessica Woodgate. Owen Jones on the Classification of Abuse Online, Data Ethics Club. 31st May 2023.
• Jessica Woodgate. Designing Accountable Systems, Data Ethics Club. 17th May 2023.
• Jessica Woodgate. Queer in AI: A Case Study in Community-Led Participatory AI, Data Ethics Club. 5th May 2023.
• Jessica Woodgate and Huw Day. Social Biases in NLP Models as Barriers for Persons with Disabilities, Data Ethics Club. 19th April 2023.
• Jessica Woodgate and Huw Day. The Tech We Won't Build, Data Ethics Club. 29th March 2023.