{"id":2599,"date":"2025-07-15T04:35:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/?page_id=2599"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:59:17","slug":"glen-weyl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/speakers\/glen-weyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Weyl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/glenspeaker-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2340 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/glenspeaker-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/glenspeaker-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/glenspeaker-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/glenspeaker-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/glenspeaker.jpg 1080w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/1024;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3>Approaching Gaia from Two Sides: Fostering Social Self-Consciousness in Social Media Platforms and \u2018AI\u2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<strong>Glen Weyl<br><\/strong>Research Lead, Plural Technology Collaboratory, Microsoft\n\n\n\nE. Glen Weyl is Founder and Research Lead at Microsoft Research\u2019s Plural Technology Collaboratory, Founder and Chair of the Plurality Institute, and Founder of RadicalxChange Foundation. He serves as advisor to Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s 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 \u201cDecentralized Society.\u201d 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.\n\n\n\n<strong>Learn more<\/strong><br>Website:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/glenweyl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">https:\/\/glenweyl.com\/<\/mark><\/a><br><br><strong>Read these<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2502.10834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Prosocial Media<\/mark><\/a> by E. Glen Weyl, Luke Thorburn, Emillie de Keulenaar, Jacob Mchangama, Divya Siddarth, and Audrey Tang, 2025.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/09\/a-blueprint-for-a-better-digital-society\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">A Blueprint for a Better Digital Society<\/mark><\/a> by Jaron Lanier and E. Glen Weyl, Harvard Business Review 2018.\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2137,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2599","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Approaching Gaia from Two Sides: Fostering Social Self-Consciousness in Social Media Platforms and \u2018AI\u2019 Glen WeylResearch Lead, Plural Technology Collaboratory, Microsoft E. 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