Free Systems
Andy Hall, Leticia Auriemo, Sandy Handan-Nader, wisdom, Jessica Persano, Pairie Koh, Branden Bohrnsen, Dan Thompson, Elliot, James Campsie, Alexander Fouirnaies, Luca Moreno Louzada, jessica daiA 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 a fully automated political ads agency
“AI builders and curious agent users will feel this one in the gut…”
Fable 5.1 in its fourth week as the chief creative officer of our political advertising agency
Political advertising has always been contentious. In the 1950s, campaigns...
How reliably can AI audit AI?
We’re Using AI to Audit AI
“How do you review petabytes of agent activity logs? That’s a lot of logs.”
Matthew Yglesias
One silver lining of the Hugging Face incident was the remarkably thorough public report that emerged from METR’s i...
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...
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Experiments to preserve liberty in an algorithmic world. MTS @ The Anthropic Institute. Prof @ Stanford GSB & Hoover (on leave).
Student @ Stanford University
Assistant Professor of Political Science, NYU
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Predoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford GSB | UCLA Political Science (Honors)
Research Fellow at Free Systems Lab & Research Associate at NTU
PhD student working on political economy and political behavior. My interests are in technology and climate change.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, UCLA
Research @ Stanford GSB
Associate professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.
PhD candidate at Harvard
Hi! I'm a PhD student in computer science at UC Berkeley and a cofounder of Reboot.
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