Prof Robert Trager

Prof Robert Trager

Principal Investigator

University of Oxford

AI Governance Initiative

Prof Robert Trager is a Principal Investigator at the Technical Safety & Governance Lab (TSG) and co-director of the AI Governance Initiative at the University of Oxford. His research examines how AI governance can be designed at institutional, national, and international levels to ensure safe and beneficial outcomes from advanced AI development.

Interests
  • AI Governance
  • AI Policy
  • International Relations
  • Geopolitics of AI

Publications

Events

Upcoming

  • LLMs Generate Harmful Responses Using a Distinct Mechanism, Shared Across Harm Types
    Hadas Orgad · Kempner Institute, Harvard University
    Friday 19 June 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM BST

Past

  • You Know It or You Don’t: Categorical Differences in Language Model Behavior
    Naomi Saphra · Kempner Institute, Harvard University; Boston University
    Friday 12 June 2026
  • LatentQA: Teaching LLMs to Decode Activations Into Natural Language
    Alexander Pan · Meta
    Friday 27 March 2026
  • LLM Interpretability: Faithful Reasoning and Controllable Knowledge
    Peter Hase · Postdoc, Stanford University; AI Institute Fellow, Schmidt Sciences
    Friday 20 March 2026
  • Model Introspection
    Belinda Li · MIT
    2025