The widepread deployment of AI systems in critical domains demands more rigorous approaches to evaluating their capabilities and safety.
The widepread deployment of AI systems in critical domains demands more rigorous approaches to evaluating their capabilities and safety.
2025 Spring Conference
In an era when information is treated as a form of power and self-knowledge an unqualified good, the value of what remains unknown is often overlooked.
In an era when information is treated as a form of power and self-knowledge an unqualified good, the value of what remains unknown is often overlooked.
John H. Cochrane (Stanford), “AI, Society, and Democracy: Just Relax”
Sarah Friar (OpenAI) and Laura Bisesto (OpenAI), “The Potential for AI to Restore Local Community Connectedness, the Bedrock of a Healthy Democracy”
Mona Hamdy (Anomaly and Harvard University), Johnnie Moore (JDA Worldwide and The Congress of Christian Leaders), and E. Glen Weyl (Plural Technology Collaboratory), “Techno-ideologies of the Twenty-first Century”
Reid Hoffman (Greylock) and Greg Beato, “Informational GPS”
Lawrence Lessig (Harvard), “Protected Democracy”
James Manyika (Google and Alphabet), “Getting AI Right: A 2050 Thought Experiment”
Jennifer Pahlka (Niskanen Center and the Federation of American Scientists), “AI Meets the Cascade of Rigidity”
Nathaniel Persily (Stanford), “Misunderstanding AI’s Democracy Problem”
Eric Schmidt (Former CEO and Chairman of Google), “Democracy 2.0”
Divya Siddarth (Collective Intelligence Project), Saffron Huang (Collective Intelligence Project), Audrey Tang (Collective Intelligence Project), “A Vision of Democratic AI”
Lily L. Tsai (MIT) and Alex Pentland (Stanford), “Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Engagement”
Eugene Volokh (Stanford and UCLA), “Generative AI and Political Power”