Free Systems Lab

A research lab building and testing prototypes to keep the world free in the age of AI.

Based at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hoover Institution.

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The Manifesto

AI is becoming a political actor. It already shapes what we believe, votes on our behalf, and is starting to govern. We build, test, and break the prototypes that will decide whether humans stay in charge.

Our research is organized in three layers. Each is a question we are trying to answer in code.

Information
Can we build systems that know what’s true?
Representation
Can AI faithfully act on our behalf?
Governance
Can AI-powered institutions preserve human sovereignty?

We build things. We break them. We share what we find. The design choices being made right now — in AI labs, corporate boardrooms, and regulatory agencies — will shape the relationship between humans and AI governance for decades.

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