Wired Italia
06.11.2024

Why AI still isn’t getting into Oxford, and why that shows it is astounding

“Every year just before Christmas at the University of Oxford, college dons in gowns convene to conduct the annual admissions interview exercise. Many students from around the world apply for our program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE for short); famously the academic background of numerous British prime ministers. Unlike in the case of most of our competitors for global academic talent like Harvard or Stanford, admissions decisions are made by front-line academics themselves rather than by a central bureaucratic admissions office, befitting the slightly anarchic federal structure of Oxford that has provided institutional resilience for close to a thousand years.”

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