Alignment is a two-sided problem. Enormous effort goes into making AI capable and aligning it with our values. Almost none into preparing our institutions to absorb it. Even a perfectly aligned system fails in a society that isn't ready for it. www.noemamag.com/what-humanit...

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Noema is longform journalism exploring fresh ideas. We publish essays, reporting, interviews, videos and art on the overlapping realms of philosophy, governance, geopolitics, economics, technology and...

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“Even a perfectly aligned [AI] system will underdeliver on its potential or cause serious harm if it is deployed into democracies, economies & legal systems unprepared to receive it.” — @glenweyl.bsky.social, @jamesyoungevans.bsky.social & Chris White #ai #futureofwork #aieconomy

What Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade | NOEMA

We are headed toward a world of productivity without prosperity, execution without verification and capacity without constraint. But this outcome is not inevitable.

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How can AI companies properly compensate content creators for training data? Raul Castro Fernandez and @glenweyl.bsky.social published an op-ed in @hbr.org exploring how to create a sustainable market that benefits creators, AI companies, and the public 🔗 hbr.org/2026/06/how-...

Delighted to pick up my copy of Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology & Democracy by @audreyt.org & @glenweyl.bsky.social. I have written about Audrey Tang’s work in strengthening #Taiwan’s democratic resilience & her contribution to Taiwan’s soft power, so excited to learn more

Nothing is more important in shaping the future of tech than the builders themselves---so it's fascinating to see the unexpected electoral success of Japan's Team Mirai, a party of software engineers who are using AI-powered transparency and deliberation tools www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/w...

The A.I. Evangelists on a Mission to Shake Up Japan

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@glenweyl.bsky.social explains why Taiwan’s system works at our #FreeSpeechSummit2025. Watch his full talk on YouTube:

How Taiwan Tackled Misinformation without Censorship | ft. Glen Weyl

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The most commonly proposed solutions to social media misinformation and polarization are often a cure worse than the disease. At #FreeSpeechSummit2025, @glenweyl.bsky.social discusses a better way to address these issues.

Do community notes work? They are a step in the right direction — away from top-down moderation — but @glenweyl.bsky.social explains how they can be improved at #FreeSpeechSummit2025. 🔗 Watch the full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIELV-14III

Plurality ⿻ is the topic of the latest chapter of Technological Metamodernism by me and Hilma Church-Turing cc @audreyt.org @glenweyl.bsky.social @ntnsndr.in @radxchange.bsky.social @pluralityinstitute.bsky.social technologicalmetamodernism.substack.com/p/plurality

Plurality ⿻

Chapter 6, part 2 of Technological Metamodernism

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@glenweyl.bsky.social says superintelligence is already here—and it’s social. He argues that it already exists in the collective systems humanity has created. Read more insights from his recent lecture at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social: datascience.columbia.edu/news/2025/wh...

Why Glen Weyl Says Superintelligence Is Already Here—and It’s Social. - The Data Science Institute at Columbia University

Glen Weyl, researcher and economist at Microsoft and co-founder of the Plurality Institute, does not think superintelligence is something we are waiting to build. He argues that it already exists—in …...

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💡 Microsoft Research’s @glenweyl.bsky.social is giving a lecture at @datascicolumbia.bsky.social on Dec 1: How to be the Superintelligence You’ve Been Waiting For Don’t miss it! Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-gl... @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

🌸 Broad Listening Opens Our Minds: freedom.wethepeople-250.org

What Do Freedom & Equality Mean to Americans Today? | We the People

As the US approaches its 250th anniversary, AI enables a new type of conversation amongst Americans on freedom & equality.

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Delighted to be part of this key project to empower user agency, open source and prosocial ranking into social feeds. Thank you to @noupside.bsky.social and @jonathanstray.bsky.social for their leadership!

⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳@audreyt.org · 10mo ago

Caterpillars aren't forever earthbound. One day they metamorphose & take to the skies.🦋 GreenEarth Social is replicating the process in building advanced open source algorithms for social media.🏗️ Read on & help realise this big vision.🌌 ▶️ greenearthsocial.substack.com/p/introducin... #LLAP🖖

When pressed by @glenweyl.bsky.social on how free and fair elections would function under his “accountable monarchy” (where dissent is eliminated), Curtis Yarvin admits that his view of "free and fair" is similar to Putin’s elections.

I especially love Singapore's regular think tanks that inspire youth to reimagine governance. I once wrote about one of the ideas that resulted: A "wikiocracy." www.elysian.press/p/what-if-go...

What if government worked like Wikipedia?

Wikiocracy as the next phase of democracy.

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One thing I love about this piece by @ellegriffin.bsky.social is that she gets that even the best cases of dictatorships are really just ways of implementing smarter democracy...shortcuts there, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, but ultimately democracy is the good outcome.

Elle Griffin@elysian.press · 12mo ago

The tech we invent now—AI, automation, satellites—can be used for great good or great harm. Dictatorship puts those tools in one man’s hands. Democracy puts them in ours. Read the full post 👇🏻 www.elysian.press/p/so-america...

The solution isn't to abolish democracy, it's to innovate it. @glenweyl.bsky.social thinks democracy could become incredibly organized and efficient if we catch it up to the times with: Quadratic voting Quadratic budgeting Participatory democracy And yes, automation!

So we're building a modern algorithmic feed for BlueSky (opt-in, of course). We want it to make you better informed about politics, minus the rage. Particularly to help you understand what folks on the other side think ESPECIALLY when you don't agree with them. Is that a thing people here want?

Tune in tomorrow night! At issue is the US, but the world will be watching: we know of "plural" watch parties on at least 4 continents. Join the open discussion during and after the debate at contextengine.xyz/demo/rxc

(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼@glenweyl.bsky.social · last yr.

Don't miss my first ever live debate with Curtis Yarvin, cited by @jd-vance-1.bsky.social and Elon Musk as one of their primary intellectual influences, on whether the US should be ruled by a CEO dictator: opentodebate.org/debate/shoul...

Trying to be more consistent — just published a quick video on @audreyt.org @glenweyl.bsky.social Jacob Mchangama paper in the Noema magazine www.noemamag.com/building-a-p... www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Nl... (If you have any feedback - please bring it on😊)

Audrey Tang, Glen Weyl and Jacob Mchangama in Noema

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Should the U.S. be ruled by a CEO dictator? Curtis Yarvin and Glen Weyl will debate this Sept 4. Join via livestream or in person in NYC. @glenweyl.bsky.social opentodebate.org/debate/shoul...

Should the U.S. Be Ruled by a CEO Dictator?

Live NYC Debate Thursday, September 4, 2025 | Venue: Racket NYC Doors open at 6:00 PM | Debate starts at 7:00 PM Buy Tickets HERE | Register for the livestream HERE What if the U.S. abandoned democrat...

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@glenweyl.bsky.social this article appears to point to Plurality taking beneficial root in USA finally??? gizmodo.com/a-kentucky-t...

A Kentucky Town Experimented With AI. The Results Were Stunning

In a divided America, a Kentucky town used AI to strip away political labels and discovered its residents agree on almost everything.

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The livestream is free. I just registered. Very much looking forward to this. IMHO, these are the two leading thinkers in the world when it comes to what comes after the neoliberal democratic disorder as far as rule by CEO... or something better and much more democratic.

(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼@glenweyl.bsky.social · last yr.

Don't miss my first ever live debate with Curtis Yarvin, cited by @jd-vance-1.bsky.social and Elon Musk as one of their primary intellectual influences, on whether the US should be ruled by a CEO dictator: opentodebate.org/debate/shoul...

Don't miss my first ever live debate with Curtis Yarvin, cited by @jd-vance-1.bsky.social and Elon Musk as one of their primary intellectual influences, on whether the US should be ruled by a CEO dictator: opentodebate.org/debate/shoul...

Should the U.S. Be Ruled by a CEO Dictator?

Live NYC Debate Thursday, September 4, 2025 | Venue: Racket NYC Doors open at 6:00 PM | Debate starts at 7:00 PM Buy Tickets HERE | Register for the livestream HERE What if the U.S. abandoned democrat...

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Interesting paper that @noupside.bsky.social brought to my attention. I'd interpret the conclusion on bridging a bit differently. This suggests bridging works, but that doing it globally reduces diversity...yes! That's why we need pluralistic bridging: www.noemamag.com/building-a-p...

Building A Prosocial Media Ecosystem | NOEMA

There’s never been a better time to make social media what it always should have been: a tool to strengthen rather than strip-mine the social fabric.

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Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · last yr.

We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following. It still became a polarization machine. Then we tried six interventions to fix social media. The results were… not what we expected. arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

opentodebate.org/debate/shoul... @glenweyl.bsky.social v curtis yarvin

Should the U.S. Be Ruled by a CEO Dictator?

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It will be an honor to finally engage someone who I have long held out as one of the leading intellectual influences on our time. Curtis Yarvin's mistaken ideas cannot be defeated with outrage alone; they must be answered with logic and fact. opentodebate.org/debate/shoul....

Should the U.S. Be Ruled by a CEO Dictator?

Live NYC Debate Thursday, September 4, 2025 | Venue: Racket NYC Doors open at 6:00 PM | Debate starts at 7:00 PM Buy Tickets HERE | Register for the livestream HERE What if the U.S. abandoned democrat...

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@glenweyl.bsky.social — Founder, Plural Technology at Microsoft and tech liberty initiatives.

Ok so this is going to be a VERY nerdy thread, but this is an important foundational point on mechanism design that I still haven't seen anyone articulate after years of expressing it privately to people, and I don't have the time to write a paper on, so let me

I often say that the two most hopeless states are utopia and dystopia, as there is no improving from either. If you're a hope monger like me, you have to instead aspire to a world constantly aware of its incapacities and limitations and delighted by the opportunity to