Free Systems
Andy Hall, Elliot, Jeremy Nguyen, Dan Thompson, Sho Miyazaki, Branden Bohrnsen, Jessica Persano, Pairie KohA Stanford political economist uses AI to build prototypes, run experiments, and figure out how to keep us free in an algorithmic world.
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An army of citizens building evals
“Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
–Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
How do we learn how to think, so...
The Politics of Jobless Prosperity
“People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
–Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944 State of the Union
There has never been an economic shock in modern American history like the one the leaders of the AI i...
The Quiet Bundling
In my AI class last quarter, we used a wise council of LLMs—based on Andrej Karpathy’s design—to help us make decisions, critique guest appearances, and even judge our class t-shirt competition. I built the council using Claude Code. The pr...
Training AI to Govern for Us
Thirty Stanford students sit at their laptops in a row of long tables, watching the screen at the front of the room flicker with the back-and-forth negotiations and final votes of their AI legislators. Piper, our class’s technical TA, had h...
Prediction markets are eating American Politics
“All of the major candidates I know right now, running for office right now, are sending around their Kalshi numbers, not their poll numbers.”
–Sean Patrick Maloney, former chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign
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Experiments to preserve liberty in an algorithmic world. Prof @ Stanford GSB & Hoover.
Research @ Stanford GSB
College prof running experiments in applied AI. Writer on a Disney+ show. Father to a little one, still sleepy.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, UCLA
Sho’s research examines the political economy of governance in the digital age, with particular attention to artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and voting institutions.
PhD student working on political economy and political behavior. My interests are in technology and climate change.
Predoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford GSB | UCLA Political Science (Honors)
Member of Technical Staff at Ego AI (YCW24) & Research Fellow at Free Systems Lab
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