Research Archive
CIP's roadmap to democratic AI
Jay Kang believes that we are "arguing ourselves to death"
GenAI Could Make Online Conversations More Civil
CIP envisions a collectively-intelligent future
Divya Siddarth believes AI and democracy can fix each other
Nathan Schneider releases a new book on innovative democratic design for online spaces
AI-powered content moderation to fight online extremism
The rise of collective provision in a world of supermodularity
What we know about using non-engagement signals in content ranking
A roadmap to pluralistic alignment
The arts and humanities roles in AI
Promoting online prosocial behavior via digital intervention
Can alignment assemblies bring democracy to Silicon Valley?
OpenAI’s plan to make AI more ‘democratic’
How social technology is influencing human connection
Innovative strategies for rebuilding trust in governance
University of Michigan's deep dive into generative AI
Verhulst & Schüür on data governance as AI's bedrock
Harvard Ash Institute unveils AI governance roadmap
Danielle Allen and Glen Weyl discuss the real dangers of generative AI
Web3 brings "immense potential" for societal structural change
Taiwan wins global plaudits for a robust and transparent vote
What will AI do to elections in 2024?
New book release on digital data governance
Does training an AI model on copyrighted material violate the copyright?
We’ve lost our way on campus. Here’s how we can find our way back.
Learning how to build peace in the digital age
Open Problems in DAOs
Weak-to-strong generalization
The Tech We Need for 21st Century Democracy
AI and Democracy's Digital Identity Crisis
Steering Responsible AI: A Case for Algorithmic Pluralism
Combining Human and Machine Intelligence for Enhanced Democracy
How the UK Collective Intelligence Lab is Using AI for Public Engagement in Policymaking
Contact Theory with No Contact: Facilitating Dialogue Online
Beyond Collusion Resistance: Leveraging Social Information for Plural Funding and Voting
Is fixing democracy partisan?
Opportunities and Risks of LLMs for Scalable Deliberation with Polis
Guidelines for AI and Shared Prosperity
Bridging Systems Open Problems for Countering Destructive Divisiveness across Ranking, Recommenders, and Governance
CIP and Anthropic launch Collective Constitutional AI
Generative AI and Policymaking for the New Frontier
Understanding how norms shape digital spaces
Aviv Ovadya on reimagining democracy in the age of AI
‘Turning conflicts into co-creation’: Taiwan government harnesses digital policy for democracy
Amy Zhang on democratizing power in online communities
PI hosts a discussion on how to make plurality a reality in organizations
What does Vitalik Buterin think about Community Notes?
Glen Weyl and Audrey Tang seek collaboration on a new plurality book
How can digital tools help us humanize conflict and bridge divides?
How can we use a plural framework to address political and economic challenges?
What is the difference between good and bad conflict?
vTaiwan: An Empirical Study of Open Consultation Process in Taiwan
Plurality: Technology For Collaborative Diversity and Democracy
Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
Science of Science
Towards a Connected Society
Plurality Research Network Mission Statement
How can we bring academic rigor to regenerative crypto-economics?
WTF is Partial Common Ownership? (and why should I care?)
PICSY : Proposing a New Currency System Using Social Computing
Bridging the Gap to the Security Field
Danielle Allen on Power-Sharing Liberalism
Can we create a new model for what technology should be and do?
What can we learn from Taiwan's digital democracy?
What does communication, consensus and governance look like in a pluralistic future?
How can we make pluralism practical?
Can proxy democracy be used as a fair and effective decision-making process?
Foundational Research
Research Grants
The Plurality Institute funds a variety of research projects through grants.
New Network Sovereignties explores a new type of organizational structure that can foster cooperation at a local and global scale through shared values and participatory decision-making.
The Calm Tech Institute establishes UX standards for designing human-tech interfaces. They aim to create a cultural shift around how we relate to, engage with and design technologies that shape our world.
The Plurality Policython project translates youth ideas into governance and policy proposals through events like AI congress simulations, hackathons and policythons. Grant funding covers technical costs for events.
The Governance Garden unites promising online governance R&D teams into an incubation cohort that works in a coopetitive fashion to carefully and speedily equip humanity with urgently needed governance tools.