Research Archive
Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Beneficial Futures of Pluralism, Democracy, and the Tools Needed to Build Them
Plurality Institute Mission Statement
Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs
Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content
Artificial intelligence, the common good, and the democratic deficit in AI governance
Enabling the Digital Democratic Revival: A Research Program for Digital Democracy
Users’ Experiences of Algorithm-Mediated Public Services: Folk Theories, Trust, and Strategies in the Global South
Sycophancy to Subterfuge: Investigating Reward-Tampering in Large Language Models
Can Deliberation Have Lasting Effects?
How College Students Can Depolarize: Evidence for Political Moderation Within Homogeneous Groups
On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models
Wikibench: Community-Driven Data Curation for AI Evaluation on Wikipedia
Inspiring Action: Identifying the Social Sector AI Opportunity Gap
Computing Power and the Governance of AI
Reimagining Democracy for AI
Steering Responsible AI: A Case for Algorithmic Pluralism
Power & Decision Making: New Directions for Research in the Age of AI
Enrolling Citizens: A Primer on Archetypes of Democratic Engagement with AI
Governing with Artificial Intelligence: Are governments ready?
Chillbot: Content Moderation in the Backchannel
Measuring the Openness of AI Foundation Models: Competition and Policy Implications
Decoding Digital Authoritarianism
Research can help to tackle AI-generated disinformation
Urban Artificial Intelligence: From Real-world Observations to a Paradigm-Shifting Concept
AI Chat Assistants can Improve Conversations about Divisive Topics
YouTube rolls out new community notes feature, bridging diverse perspectives
AI and Epistemic Risk for Democracy: A Coming Crisis of Public Knowledge?
Users’ Experiences of Algorithm-Mediated Public Services: Folk Theories, Trust, and Strategies in the Global South
Enabling the Digital Democratic Revival: A Research Program for Digital Democracy
How Bias Hides in ‘Kitchen Sink’ Approaches to Data
Enrolling Citizens: A Primer on Archetypes of Democratic Engagement with AI
Are we raising a generation of AI guinea pigs?
What is Plurality?
Can AI bring deliberation to the masses
Exploring the Design of Technology-Mediated Nudges for Online Misinformation
The AI Echo Chamber
AI and Epistemic Risk for Democracy: A Coming Crisis of Public Knowledge?
Sycophancy to Subterfuge: Investigating Reward-Tampering in Large Language Models
Ravi Iyer believes Apple, Google, and Microsoft Can Help Parents Protect Children
Could the future of democracy depend on your group chats?
What are the long term effects of recommendation algorithms?
Has social media become more (or less) informative in the last year?
Should we calm down about AI and the election cycle?
LLMs are being used to automate social science research
What the AI Act will(and won't) change
Taiwan’s digital minister has an ambitious plan to enhance digital democracy by aligning tech with democracy
A new documentary is set to chronicle the journey of Taiwan's digital minister, Audrey Tang, as she seeks to transform democracy
Announcing: The new book "Plurality" by Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and community is now available!
Making Decisions About AI — or Anything
Matt Motyl observes a social media paradigm shift
Audrey Tang discusses new Plurality book
AI and the Future of Government
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
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.