Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative

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 an appendix 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.