Our work
Working in teams, network members will produce both foundational conceptual papers and practical policy guidance for the research topics taken up. Conceptual papers will be published quickly in white paper form, and also in scholarly journals. Policy guidance will be crafted for specific stakeholder partners, who will be engaged in the work from agenda design through to completed deliverable.
Running alongside the whitepaper + policy brief work stream, we will run a series of workshops that seek to tackle the constitutional-level implications of tech innovation for U.S. democracy as well as for global regulators and develop a roadmap to guide mastery of the implications of technology across the multiple policy domains of U.S. governance structures.
GETTING-Plurality Open Research Questions
Network members have developed an open and collaborative list of research priorities in response to the recent advances in artificial intelligence.
Ovadya discusses bridging systems at Columbia symposium
GETTING-Plurality Workstream Lead Aviv Ovadya recently discussed his work on bridging systems as part of “Optimizing for What? Algorithmic Amplification and Society,” at Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute.
Putting Flourishing First: Applying Democratic Values to Technology
In this short research brief, the authors unpack and comment on the four-step logic at the core of GETTING-Plurality’s foundational white paper, Ethics of Decentralized Social Technologies: Lessons from Web3,
Ethics of Decentralized Social Technologies: Lessons from the Web3, the Fediverse, and Beyond
The plethora of experiments with decentralized social technologies (DSTs)—clusters of which are sometimes called “the Web 3.0 ecosystem” or “the Fediverse”—have brought us to a constitutional moment. These technologies enable
Plural Publics
Data governance is usually conceptualized in terms of “privacy” v. “publicity”. Yet a core feature of pluralistic societies is association, groups that share with each other, privately. These
GETTING-Plurality Launch
Harvard Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics Launches Research Network on the Governance of Emerging Technologies through Plurality March 20, 2023 The Harvard Edmond & Lily Safra Center for
Upcoming: Harvard DAO Conference
DAO Harvard is a three-day conference that will bring together practitioners, policymakers, and academics to engage in conversation regarding the research, legal, and policy considerations of DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations).
Partnering with the Collective Intelligence Project
GETTING-Plurality is delighted to be partnering with the Collective Intelligence Project (CIP), an incubator for new governance models for transformative technology. CIP will focus on the research and development of
How AI could write our laws, MIT Technology Review
Nearly 90% of the multibillion-dollar federal lobbying apparatus in the United States serves corporate interests. In some cases, the objective of that money is obvious. Google pours millions into lobbying
We Don’t Need to Reinvent our Democracy to Save it from AI
When is it time to start worrying about artificial intelligence interfering in our democracy? Maybe when an AI writes a letter to The New York Times opposing the regulation of
