Free Systems
Andy Hall, wisdom, Elliot, Dan Thompson, Leticia Auriemo, Jessica Persano, Pairie Koh, James Campsie, Alexander Fouirnaies, Sandy Handan-Nader, Luca Moreno LouzadaA 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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Building better public signals for AI impacts
This blog post summarizes findings from the ICML 2026 paper “Three Years of r/ChatGPT: Societal Impact Evaluations from Social Media Data.” The corresponding live site, updated daily with new data, is available here.
The unprecedented cons...
Who Would AI Tell Brazil to Vote For?
As the political mood around AI curdles, AI assistants are entering electoral prime time.
A succession of elections are about to test how increasingly sophisticated systems act as political advisers, and the extent to which they shape vote...
Extraordinary Multi-Agent Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
–Charles Mackay
Since the extraordinary revelations of the HuggingFace incident, we’ve n...
Model cards...collect ‘em all?
Last week was a blockbuster week for AI model releases.
OpenAI released Astra. Anthropic released Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1. Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Meta released Muse Spark 1.3.
The frontier is moving quickly, and breathless...
Mapping America’s Political Conversations with Claude
In July, the New York Times reported on people across the country photographing their ballots and asking chatbots to help them fill them out:
“It was probably only a matter of time before voters began to use artificial intelligence to he...
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Experiments to preserve liberty in an algorithmic world. MTS @ The Anthropic Institute. Prof @ Stanford GSB & Hoover (on leave).
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Research @ Stanford GSB
Assistant Professor of Political Science, UCLA
Student @ Stanford University
Predoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford GSB | UCLA Political Science (Honors)
Research Fellow at Free Systems Lab & Research Associate at NTU
Associate professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, NYU
PhD candidate at Harvard
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