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Wimpy Selected for Inaugural Oxford AI Governance Program for Social Scientists

Arkansas State University · · International · AI Governance

An individual named Wimpy from Arkansas State University has been selected for Oxford University's inaugural AI governance program aimed at social scientists.

Why this matters: AI governance is still a field where the people making policy decisions often come from law or computer science. Social scientists bring a different lens — behavior, institutions, power, how rules actually land on real people. Programs that train them matter because the governance gap is not just technical. It is about who gets a seat when the rules are written.

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