AI is remaking how societies inform themselves, make decisions, and govern. This course dives in hands-on: we'll build AI agents, stress-test them for political bias, run governance simulations, trade on prediction markets, and study what crypto's wild experiments in decentralized rule-making got right and wrong. The goal is to understand our increasingly algorithmic world and to prototype the institutions that will keep it free.
3 units · Letter (ABCD/NP)
AI is remaking how societies inform themselves, make decisions, and govern. This course dives in hands-on: we'll build AI agents, stress-test them for political bias, run governance simulations, trade on prediction markets, and study what crypto's wild experiments in decentralized rule-making got right and wrong. The goal is to understand our increasingly algorithmic world and to prototype the institutions that will keep it free.
Offered in Spring 2026 at Stanford University.