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E. Glen  Wehl

E. Glen Wehl

Founder and Chairperson of the RadicalxChange Foundation, Co-Founder of the Plurality Institute, Speaker

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E. Glen Wehl

Founder and Chairperson of the RadicalxChange Foundation, Co-Founder of the Plurality Institute, Speaker

In-Person Fee Range:
$20,001 - $30,000
Fee Details
Traveling from:
Massachusetts

Why Book

  • E. Glen Weyl is a political economist and social technologist whose work focuses on harnessing computers and markets to create a radically equal and cooperative society.
  • Glen uses ideas from political economy, sociology and computer science to develop technology to empower diversity, cooperation and widely-shared prosperity.
  • Founded by economist Glen Weyl in 2018, the RadicalxChange Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to advancing the RxC movement, to building community, and to education about democratic innovation.

Biography

Web 3, the metaverse, artificial intelligence and social networks are transforming our society and economy, and core social values like democracy and pluralism. Glen Weyl is the world’s leading expert on how to harness these emerging tools to advance support, advance and renew those values.

As the main intellectual collaborator of Vitalik Buterin (Founder of Ethereum), Jaron Lanier (father of virtual reality) and Audrey Tang (Former Digital Minister of Taiwan), Glen makes the dizzying possibilities of the future digestible.

Glen was on the leadership team of Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, which led the relationship with OpenAI, and is now leading the main industrial research group (the PTC) addressing how plural (free, democratic and diverse) societies can thrive in the age of generative foundation models.

– Glen has founded and acts as research lead of the largest decentralized technology research group in the world

– Glen has shaped the world’s most vibrant digital decentralized ecosystem (Ethereum) and national digital democracy (Taiwan) respectively.

– As co-author of Radical Markets, Glen invented social technologies like Quadratic Voting that have become the gold standard for democratic innovation.

– As an advisor on geopolitics and macroeconomics to Microsoft’s senior leaders, Glen has helped companies navigate the intersection of an unsettled world with exponential technical progress.

– As Founder of RadicalxChange and technical co-lead of the Committee for Pandemic Testing, Glen has built a global social movement across civil, academic, public and private sectors to tackle the most pressing and enduring social challenges.

Glen is co-author of an open, Web3-based collaborative book project with Taiwan’s Former Digital Minister, Audrey Tang, Plurality: Technology for Cooperative Diversity and Democracy. He is co-author with Eric Posner of the 2018 Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society, with Puja Ohlhaver and Vitalik Buterin of the 2022 paper Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul (which is one of the 30 most downloaded papers of all time on the Social Science Research Network in its first year).

He is also the author of dozens of scholarly and popular articles in journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Economic Review, the Harvard Law Review, the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation and the New York Times.

He has been recognized as one of the 10 most influential people in blockchain by CoinDesk, as one of the 25 people shaping the next 25 years of technology by WIRED and as one of the 50 most influential people by Bloomberg Businessweek, all in 2018. He graduated as Valedictorian of his Princeton undergraduate class in 2007 and received his Ph.D. in economics, also from Princeton in 2008.

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Programs

Surviving the “AI” Revolution

Welcome the shapeshifters.  Using the digital traces you left behind, “generative foundation models” (GFMs) can now replicate your likeness, voice and personality, fooling your bank, work and even family.  At the same time, you can harness a “stunt double” to increase your productivity by a factor of 100.  Can we secure the opportunities these technologies offer without destroying the social fabric or imposing authoritarian control?  As Founder of Microsoft Research’s Special Project the Plural Technology Collaboratory, the Plurality Institute, Harvard’s GETTING-Plurality Research Network and the RadicalxChange Foundation, I am on the front lines of answering these questions in collaboration with the leading AI labs (like OpenAI) and most advanced governments in the world (like Taiwan).  In this talk I will describe the fundamental organizational and social changes we will need for pluralistic societies to thrive in the age of GFMs.

Surviving Online when Deception is Omnipresent and Omnipotent

The next wave of generative foundation models (GFMs) succeeding ChatGPT and DALL-E, will make indistinguishable and arbitrarily manipulable simulation of human content (e.g. video, voice, documents) ubiquitous, liquidating much of the foundation of social cooperation and trust.

Maintaining trust and collaboration will require a revolution in verification and dramatically expanded applications of cryptography. Luckily Web3 ecosystems like Ethereum and countries like Taiwan have been coping with similar threats for years now. In this talk, I will draw lessons from these experiences to help individuals and organizations of all sizes survive and thrive in this disruption.

Quadratic Funding

I am the co-inventor of Quadratic Funding, the hottest new approach to supporting social entrepreneurship and cross silo-collaboration within companies, I am Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer Political Economist and Social Technologist and Founder of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

I will explain how QF works, how it has been mathematically proven as the optimal way to support public goods and how it is transforming open source software, the blockchain, media and social service provision.  Whether you’re looking to tap the wisdom of your employees to catalyze new cross-company entrepreneurship or catalyze effective charitable giving, QF is one of the most powerful tools available today and there’s no one better to learn about it from than its pioneer.

Antitrust and Digital Competition

As a former professor of economics at the University of Chicago, I developed the economic theory behind many recent advances in antitrust policy, from the 2010 US merger guidelines to the use of antitrust to protect workers.  As Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer Political Economist and Social Technologist, I am today at the forefront of technology competition and regulatory policy.

My talk will cover some of the most innovative approaches to addressing the problems of technology monopoly platforms, including treating data as labor, forming collective bargaining institutions such as data coalitions, the democratization or utilization of platforms and the use of new open protocols to facilitate meaningful portability.  Today every company is a digital company and we all depend on the infrastructure controlled by a few dominant technology platforms.  Here is a clear glimpse into the future that will determine the fate of your business and how you can shape it.

Plurality

Democracy and technology are increasingly at loggerheads, with technology undermining democracy and democracies neglecting and constraining technology.

The reason for this conflict is our choice to invest in directions for technology (artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies) that are fundamentally antithetical to democratic pluralism. But a different path is possible and has been pioneered in the world’s most advanced digital democracy, Taiwan. In this talk, I will describe Plurality, a vision for the future of technology rooted in the history of the internet and personal computers and matured in the Taiwanese geopolitical forge that focuses on empowering collaboration across social differences. I’ll show how this new vision goes far beyond politics to transform media, productivity, health and more.

E. Glen Wehl Reviews

“Glen opened my mind to the importance of data integrity and ownership under the lens of a truly democratic spirit.”

— Asian Blockchain Summit

“We were delighted to have Glen speak on our panel titled ‘Digital rights’ at this year’s Trust Conference. His thought-provoking point about data production being a form of work is paradigm-shifting and will form the basis of many future discussions we host“

— Thomson Reuters

“A big thank and many, many thanks for a very inspiring evening. I heard many great reactions from the audience.“

— D66

“The talk went very well. Glen was well received. He was strongly prepared and fielded questions from the audience in an informative manner.”

— ACCD

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