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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Teaching the New Loop
“Without human direction, you have compute running in circles”
–Satya Nadella
Each frontier AI model release brings surprising new abilities that seem to shorten the list of what makes humans unique and wipe out the startups and establish...
AI’s TACO Trade
"You mean to tell me that the success of the program and my reelection hinge on the Federal Reserve and a bunch of fucking bond traders?"
—Bill Clinton, as reported by Bob Woodward
Last Friday’s news that Anthropic was pulling its most po...
Memes > Doom: How TikTokers and YouTubers See AI
There’s no shortage of takes on what Americans think about AI. But how are they actually experiencing it? What narratives are they confronting, and what examples are they seeing as they scroll?
Right now, elite discourse is locked in a bat...
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...
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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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