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    "id": "O-0205",
    "slug": "oxford-martin-ai-governance-initiative",
    "title": "Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative",
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      "Oxford Martin AIGI"
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    "one_liner": "A research programme at the University of Oxford that studies AI governance from technical and policy angles and hosts the Hardware AI Governance Lab.",
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        "source": "S-1705",
        "supports": "housed in the Oxford Martin School; technical and policy focus; co-led by Robert Trager and Maike Osborne"
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        "supports": "Verification for International AI Governance: prover and verifier, presence versus absence, model fingerprint attestation, traffic commitments"
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        "source": "S-0058",
        "supports": "compute providers as verifiers; workload type and compute from non-confidential information"
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        "source": "S-1703",
        "supports": "hosts the Hardware AI Governance Lab; the lab's research focus"
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        "source": "S-1320",
        "supports": "co-launched SASH's international verification collaboration; named as an early partner"
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    "body_markdown": "The Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative (AIGI) is a research programme housed in the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford [[S-1705]]. It describes itself as one of the few centres in the world that study the governance of AI from both technical and policy perspectives [[S-1705]]. It is co-led by Robert Trager, a social scientist who specialises in international relations and frontier AI regulation, and Maike Osborne, a machine-learning specialist [[S-1705]].\n\nIts verification work includes:\n\n- A 2025 AIGI report examines how states could verify compliance with international AI agreements, framed around a [[K-0001|prover]] and a [[K-0002|verifier]] [[S-0004]]. It observes that demonstrating that something exists is often easier than demonstrating that it does not [[S-0004]]. It includes appendices on model fingerprint attestation, and describes networking hardware that makes cryptographic commitments about all traffic [[S-0004]].\n- A 2024 policy paper argues that compute providers could be verifiers of their customers' activities [[S-0058]]. It describes how information that providers already hold, without confidential data, can indicate a workload's type, such as large-scale training or inference, and the compute it consumed [[S-0058]]; see [[C-0004]].\n- AIGI hosts the [[O-0209|Hardware AI Governance Lab]], which studies how computer hardware architecture can support AI governance, oversight and international coordination [[S-1703]].\n- SASH reports launching, with AIGI and a team of researchers, an international collaboration to build tools that make AI verifiable across borders, and names AIGI as an early partner [[S-1320]]. The collaboration's first project is a confidential network logger [[S-1320]]; see [[I-0008]].",
    "body_text": "The Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative (AIGI) is a research programme housed in the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford [S-1705]. It describes itself as one of the few centres in the world that study the governance of AI from both technical and policy perspectives [S-1705]. It is co-led by Robert Trager, a social scientist who specialises in international relations and frontier AI regulation, and Maike Osborne, a machine-learning specialist [S-1705]. Its verification work includes: - A 2025 AIGI report examines how states could verify compliance with international AI agreements, framed around a prover and a verifier [S-0004]. It observes that demonstrating that something exists is often easier than demonstrating that it does not [S-0004]. It includes appendices on model fingerprint attestation, and describes networking hardware that makes cryptographic commitments about all traffic [S-0004]. - A 2024 policy paper argues that compute providers could be verifiers of their customers' activities [S-0058]. It describes how information that providers already hold, without confidential data, can indicate a workload's type, such as large-scale training or inference, and the compute it consumed [S-0058]; see This compute runs inference, not training. - AIGI hosts the Hardware AI Governance Lab, which studies how computer hardware architecture can support AI governance, oversight and international coordination [S-1703]. - SASH reports launching, with AIGI and a team of researchers, an international collaboration to build tools that make AI verifiable across borders, and names AIGI as an early partner [S-1320]. The collaboration's first project is a confidential network logger [S-1320]; see SASH confidential network logger.",
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        "title": "Governing Through the Cloud: The Intermediary Role of Compute Providers in AI Regulation",
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        "id": "S-1704",
        "title": "Verifiable Semiconductor Manufacturing",
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        "id": "S-1705",
        "title": "About: Oxford Martin AIGI",
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        "id": "S-0053",
        "title": "Computing Power and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence",
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        "id": "S-0061",
        "title": "International Governance of Civilian AI: A Jurisdictional Certification Approach",
        "url": "https://trustbutveri.fyi/sources/trager-international-governance-civilian-ai/"
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