Plural Technology Collaboratory
Building the technological foundations for a plural society, where diverse communities can cooperate, self-govern, and thrive through advanced AI.
新闻与深度文章
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Yael Tauman Kalai, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, has been awarded…
Michael Freedman At a disarmament conference of 1932 Einstein described our technological vs. social maturity as a razor blade in the hand of a three-year-old. Ninety years has led to little gains in our social maturity and vast expansions of…
E. Glen Weyl, Shrey Jain, Karen Easterbrook, Jason Entenmann We are excited to introduce the Plural Technology Collaboratory (PTC), a cross-company and multi-partner collaboration with a home base within Microsoft Research (MSR) Special Projects. Collectively, we are exploring how to…
E. Glen Weyl, Kasia Sitkiewicz, Petar Maymounkov Open-source software, as exemplified by the communities that have formed around the “git” protocol for collaborative software development and version management, is one of the great wonders of digital technology. Communal open-source projects…
Shrey Jain, Karen Easterbrook and E. Glen Weyl Generative foundation models (opens in new tab) (GFMs) like GPT-4 will transform human productivity. Yet the astonishing capabilities of these models will also strain many social institutions, including the ways we communicate…
新闻报道 | 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…
新闻报道 | Emprendedor.com
Startups latinas compiten para reforzar la democracia en el Tech4democracy
El próximo lunes 10 de octubre se llevará a cabo en la Universidad de los Andes el Latin America’s Tech4democracy Venture Day, una iniciativa de IE University y el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos para promover negocios donde la…
新闻报道 | AméricaEconomía.com
Soluciones de startups latinoamericanas compiten para reforzar la democracia en Tech4democracy Venture Day Latinoamérica
Bogotá. El próximo lunes 10 de octubre tendrá lugar en la Universidad de los Andes, el Tech4democracy Venture Day Latinoamérica, una iniciativa de IE University y el departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos que buscar impulsar aquellos emprendimientos cuya…
新闻报道 | Tech Policy Press
Contending for Democracy on Social Media and Beyond
Today, the futures of both democracy and the internet lie at crossroads. These futures are intertwined in complex and critical ways, with each threatened from within, and by one another. While debates over the extent of the internet’s contributions to…