New book: Rewiring Democracy
Announcing the forthcoming book Rewiring Democracy written with Bruce Schneier
Nathan E. Sanders
It’s Time to Worry About DOGE’s AI Plans
An article for The Atlantic about the long term democratic risks posed by DOGE's plan for an 'AI-first' administration.
How public AI can strengthen democracy.
An article for Brookings laying out the case for Public AI as a tool to strengthen democracy.
How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI.
An article for Jacobin about how the 'frontier' analogy is a dangerous metaphor for AI.
How Artificial Intelligence Can Aid Democracy
An article for Slate about the potential to build Public AI that advances rather than harms democracy.
How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy
An article for The New York Times about the potential for AI to supercharge lobbying.
Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices
An article for Lawfare laying out four key governance choices presented by AI.
Four ways AI is being used to strengthen democracies worldwide
An article for The Guardian telling four stories of AI being used to support democratic functions in Japan, Brazil, Switzerland, and California.
Who Will Be the First American Candidate To Harness AI
An article for The Fulcrum analogizing to how a breakthrough American politician could harness AI in the 2026 midterms like the Obama campaign capitalized on social media in 2008.
Scientists Need a Positive Vision for AI: It’s time to lead reform, block harm, and advance the public good
An article for IEEE Spectrum laying out the landscape of political actors leveraging AI in the runup to the 2026 midterms.
Will AI Strengthen or Undermine Democracy?
An article for Next Big Idea Club / Fast Company articulating the emerging partisan gap in political usage of AI in the runup to the 2026 midterms.
AI Is Changing How Politics Is Practiced in America
An article for The American Prospect laying out the landscape of political actors leveraging AI in the runup to the 2026 midterms.
How AI Could Drive the 2026 Midterm Elections
An article for Time Magazine articulating the emerging partisan gap in political usage of AI in the runup to the 2026 midterms.
DOGE’s Flops Shouldn’t Spell Doom for AI In Government
An article for Tech Policy Press outlining the potential for another administration to use AI more responsibly in governance.
Public Media is Under Assault. Here's a Way to Fight Back
An article for The Boston Globe about how we can respond to the federal defunding of public media by putting an attention extraction tax on tech companies to support civic technology.
Mass. must resist Congress’s proposed moratorium on state AI regulation
An article for CommonWealth Beacon about Massachusetts' potentials role in resisting the proposed Congressional moratorium on state-level AI policy.
Will AI take your job? The answer could hinge on the 4 S’s of the technology’s advantages over humans
An article for The Conversation about AI's fundamendal differentiating capabilities.
AI-Generated Law Isn’t Necessarily a Terrible Idea
An article for Foreign Policy about the new UAE plan to use AI to generate law and its precedents.
Why US States Are the Best Labs for Public AI
An article for Tech Policy Press making the case for US states as the best incubators for Public AI projects.
AI Will Write Complex Laws
An article for Lawfare about the pressures and capabilities for AI to write increasingly complex law.