Proposals and debate, for institutions in a world with powerful AI.
Pax Machina: New Institutions for Powerful AI · Pax Machina
Powerful AI will open a new period of institutional invention. Pax Machina is a publication for working out, in public, what those institutions should become.
How AI Destroys Institutions
Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies encourage cooperation and stability, while also adapting to changing circumstances. The real superpower of institutions is their ability to evolve and adapt within a hierarchy
How AI Destroys Institutions
Civic institutions—like the rule of law, higher education, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex s
Lexicon: How China talks about 'agentic AI' - DigiChina
Three months after the Chinese AI company DeepSeek shocked global markets with a highly capable reasoning model, another China-linked company made a splash with a capable agentic AI system. Did Manus, released in March 2025, portend Chinese leadership in AI systems that go beyond chatbots to take action on the user’s behalf? Victor Mustar, head […]
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…
AI’s Imperial Agenda
“Empire of AI” author Karen Hao on how Silicon Valley’s young AI companies parallel colonial empires of old.
Why A Neurotech VC Bet On Anthropic: Intelligence, Interpretability, and the NeuroAI Stack — Kaleida Capital
Why would a neurotech VC bet on Anthropic? This article examines how frontier AI, neuroscience, model behavior, and intelligent systems intersect within Kaleida Capital’s NeuroAI thesis and the infrastructure shaping next-generation intelligence.
Building Political Superintelligence
Amidst fears of dystopia, a blueprint for how we use AI to reinvent the way we govern ourselves
The AI We Deserve
Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?
AI Economy Institute - Microsoft Research
The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) is Microsoft’s flagship think tank dedicated to shaping an inclusive, trustworthy AI economy. We building a network of scholars and convening that network with our subject matter experts to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming work, education, and productivity – and making this knowledge base available to policy-makers, educators, and […]
How the Protocol Institute is Adopting AI
What building a research institute at 100% adoption actually looks like
What the Anthropic fight says about AI regulation
Fables of the deconstruction of American power
Editorial | Penn has an AI problem
The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board argues that Penn’s choice to embrace AI is detrimental to the institution of higher education.
Meet Thaura / Your Ethical AI Companion
Big Tech fuels oppression. We fuel resistance. A free AI for a free future.
"The forces that are now shaping AI are the same forces that turned the open internet into monopolistic platforms, converted peer-to-peer participation into precarious labor, and enclosed the digital commons. They are now threatening to capture and enclose thought itself." osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qahd3_v1/
