Research Archive
Passing in the Dark: Making Visible Philanthropy’s Hidden and Conflicting Mental Models for Systems Change
AI has a democracy problem. Citizens’ assemblies can help.
Will AI Improve Exponentially At Value Judgments?
How to Build Progressive Public Services with Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
AI Governance Needs Sociotechnical Expertise
Autonomous Humans - Dialogues #2 - Biases in AI
Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell
Don’t Let Generative AI Distract Us from the Real Election Risks in Tech
WhatsApp answers five questions about the safety of its app
The AI Risk Repository: A Comprehensive Meta-Review, Database, and Taxonomy of Risks From Artificial Intelligence
The Vermont miracle: How one local platform is rewriting the rules of social media
Reasons To Be Optimistic About Polarization
Metagov Spotlight: Exit to Community Calculators
Twitter/X Should Stop Incentivizing Fear Speech in the UK
‘One Style Does Not Regulate All’: Moderation Practices in Public and Private WhatsApp Groups
Edges: a Plural Money Experiment
The discovery economy
Five ways to build a culture of AI experimentation
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Do people still have meaningful connections on social media?
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Experts suggest new benchmarks to rank AI models
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Capturable Curiosity for Civic Engagement
Overcoming Algocracy: AI, Blockchain and Crowdsourcing for Designing Better Dispute Systems
The Adoption of ChatGPT
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Automating public services
Social Processes of Online Hate
DEPOLARIZING AND MODERATING SOCIAL MEDIA WITH AI
Could social media support healthy online conversations?
Contrastive Distillation Is a Sample-Efficient Self-Supervised Loss Policy for Transfer Learning
Technical Research and Talent is Needed for Effective AI Governance
Using Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate Collective Intelligence: Policy Synth and Smarter Crowdsourcing
The Arc of Antitrust: A Text-based Measure of Antitrust Policy Beliefs and Attitudes
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Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
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Beneficial Futures of Pluralism, Democracy, and the Tools Needed to Build Them
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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
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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?
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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
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Could the future of democracy depend on your group chats?
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What are the long term effects of recommendation algorithms?
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Has social media become more (or less) informative in the last year?
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Should we calm down about AI and the election cycle?
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LLMs are being used to automate social science research
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What the AI Act will(and won't) change
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Taiwan’s digital minister has an ambitious plan to enhance digital democracy by aligning tech with democracy
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A new documentary is set to chronicle the journey of Taiwan's digital minister, Audrey Tang, as she seeks to transform democracy
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Announcing: The new book "Plurality" by Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and community is now available!
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Making Decisions About AI — or Anything
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Matt Motyl observes a social media paradigm shift
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Audrey Tang discusses new Plurality book
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AI and the Future of Government
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CIP's roadmap to democratic AI
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Jay Kang believes that we are "arguing ourselves to death"
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GenAI Could Make Online Conversations More Civil
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CIP envisions a collectively-intelligent future
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Divya Siddarth believes AI and democracy can fix each other
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Nathan Schneider releases a new book on innovative democratic design for online spaces
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AI-powered content moderation to fight online extremism
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The rise of collective provision in a world of supermodularity
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What we know about using non-engagement signals in content ranking
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A roadmap to pluralistic alignment
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The arts and humanities roles in AI
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Promoting online prosocial behavior via digital intervention
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Can alignment assemblies bring democracy to Silicon Valley?
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OpenAI’s plan to make AI more ‘democratic’
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How social technology is influencing human connection
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Innovative strategies for rebuilding trust in governance
Foundational Research
Research Grants
The Plurality Institute funds a variety of research projects through grants.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.