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In the news | What will AI Mean for Humanity?
What will AI Mean for Humanity?
E. Glen Weyl appeared on a panel at Harvard University about the implications of AI for the human soul.
In the news | Open to Debate
E. Glen Weyl debate Curtis Yarvin
Glen Weyl debate prominent anti-democratic technologist and philosopher Curtis Yarvin on whether the US should be ruled by a CEO dictator.
In the news | Social Media Fails Many Users. Experts Have an Idea to Fix It
Remaking “Prosocial” Media
E. Glen Weyl and his coauthors have proposed a new "prosocial" structure for social media, where posts are flagged with the context of where they are socially accepted and users can navigate to see opposing perspectives on divisive issues.
In the news | TIME
Inside Audrey Tang’s Plan to Align Technology and Democracy
E. Glen Weyl and Audrey Tang's new book provides a vision of how advanced collaborative technology can bolster democracy.
In the news | COMPLEXITY podcast
Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society
This week on the show we dip back into our sub-series on SFI’s Emergent Political Economies research theme with a trialogue featuring Microsoft Research Lead Glen Weyl (founder of RadicalXChange and founder-chair of The Plurality Institute), and SFI Resident Professor…
In the news | The Washington Post
Crypto pulled off its big upgrade. Even larger ambitions await.
The platform that hosts many of the world’s NFT and cryptocurrency trades just completed one of the trickiest upgrades in modern technology. Now come the really big goals. Earlier this week, ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and his team successfully finished…
In the news | Radical Xchange
Plurality: Technology for Collaborative Diversity and Democracy
We are about to embark on a journey and hope you will join us. Over the past half decade we have, in collaboration with so many of you, been developing an alternative to the usual narratives about the future of…
In the news | WIRED
The Web3 Decentralization Debate Is Focused on the Wrong Question
WEB3 ADVOCATES PROMISE decentralization on an unprecedented scale. Excessive centralization can stymie coordination and erode freedom, democracy, and economic dynamism—decentralization is supposed to be the remedy. But the term on its own is too vague to be a coherent end…
In the news | CoinDesk
After DeFi, DeSoc: Finding Web 3’s Soul
By using Web 3’s building blocks to represent social identity, the ecosystem can overcome its current limitations and bring about a decentralized society. Web 3 has stunned the world by forging a parallel system of finance of unprecedented flexibility and…