Andrew B. Hall

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
On leave: Davies Family Professor, Stanford GSB & Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

I write a weekly newsletter called Free Systems: Experiments to Preserve Liberty in an Algorithmic World.

I run the Free Systems research lab, which is housed across the Hoover Institution and Stanford GSB. We focus on understanding how to preserve human liberty in an increasingly algorithmic world. We build in public, running governance experiments, stress-testing frontier AI models, and prototyping tools to help ordinary people keep a real say in how AI and online platforms are governed.

For years I have used large-scale data and econometric and machine-learning methods to study how we organize collective decision-making and design democratic systems of governance, for both the online and physical worlds. That work has increasingly turned to artificial intelligence: how AI systems shape political information and behavior, how they can be governed, and how AI itself can be used to design and test better systems of governance.

Currently, I am a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, where I work in The Anthropic Institute on the political economy of superintelligence. I am on leave from Stanford, where I am the Davies Family Professor of Political Economy at the Graduate School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Previously, I was a research advisor to a16z crypto, where I studied decentralized governance, and I spent 8 years as an advisor at Meta Platforms working on a wide range of governance and strategic issues.

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