Approaching Gaia from Two Sides: Fostering Social Self-Consciousness in Social Media Platforms and ‘AI’
Glen Weyl
Research Lead, Plural Technology Collaboratory, Microsoft
Research Lead, Plural Technology Collaboratory, Microsoft
E. Glen Weyl is Founder and Research Lead at Microsoft Research’s Plural Technology Collaboratory, Founder and Chair of the Plurality Institute, and Founder of RadicalxChange Foundation. He serves as advisor to Harvard Kennedy School’s GETTING-Plurality Research Network and AI and Faith. Weyl collaborates closely with leading technology figures like Audrey Tang, Jaron Lanier, and Vitalik Buterin. He co-authored the influential book Radical Markets and the widely-read paper “Decentralized Society.” Recognized as a leading thinker by WIRED and Bloomberg, Weyl graduated as Valedictorian from Princeton in 2007 and earned his PhD in economics from Princeton in 2008.
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Website: https://glenweyl.com/
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Prosocial Media by E. Glen Weyl, Luke Thorburn, Emillie de Keulenaar, Jacob Mchangama, Divya Siddarth, and Audrey Tang, 2025.
A Blueprint for a Better Digital Society by Jaron Lanier and E. Glen Weyl, Harvard Business Review 2018.