Launching a new publication: Pax Machina
Proposals and debate for institutions in a world with powerful AI.
Meaning Alignment Institute
The Meaning Alignment Institute is a research organization aligning AI & institutions with what really matters.
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Latest posts
Baumol's Sawdust
On the limits of competition for deep wants.
Coasean Compression
On incomplete contracting at scale.
Designing Institutions for a World with Powerful AI
Highlights from our Paris workshop, February 2026
Model Integrity and Character
Thoughts on model integrity and Claude's new constitution.
Looking for testers for a Social App
We are looking for testers for a social app we will use to perform research on AI-based market intermediaries. It will also help you get closer to your friends.
Introducing Full-Stack Alignment
We're announcing an ambitious research program to co-align AI systems and the institutions that embed them with what people actually value.
Market Intermediaries: A post-AGI Vision for the Economy
An outline of an economic mechanism for human flourishing after AGI. Also, a brief look at an experiment the Meaning Alignment Institute will run later this summer to prototype it.
Model Integrity
You may want compliance from an assistant, but not from a co-founder. You want a co-founder with integrity. We propose ‘model integrity’ as an overlooked challenge in aligning LLM agents.
What are human values, and how do we align to them?
We are excited to release our new paper on values alignment! Co-authored with Ryan Lowe, and funded by OpenAI.