Cooperate Across Difference

We’re a hub for researchers working on plural technologies.

At Plurality Institute, we believe true progress and innovation emerge when brilliant minds come together. We host a range of events to help make that happen including our 3-day annual industry-wide conference, symposia on focused topic areas, and online workshops. We provide grant funding for emerging work in the field. We also help get the word out about new research, events, and opportunities across the ecosystem.

What are plural technologies?

Plural technologies are online and offline systems that help diverse social groups thrive and cooperate. They include deliberative democracy platforms like Pol.is, community funding protocols like GitCoin and empathy building experiences like the Portals Policing Project. We believe the purpose of technology should be to amplify the power and value of human cognitive diversity and that we can harness digital technologies to transform, improve and increase our social institutions even more than those technologies have corroded and undermined them.

Plurality Research Network

Our research network includes academics from across disciplines, including computer science, political science, philosophy and sociology as well industry researchers, civil and governmental leaders and a growing range of practitioners working in fields from Artificial Intelligence to Peacekeeping. We hope you’ll join us!

Check out our 2023 conference highlights

Meet the Team

Danielle Allen

James Bryant Conant Professor and Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. She is a professor of political philosophy, ethics, and public policy
Rose Bloomin

Executive Director, Plurality Institute; Founder & CEO of HandUp; Former COO of SuperBetter Labs
James Evans

Professor, University of Chicago; Director, Knowledge Lab; Faculty Director, Masters Program in Computational Social Science; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Michael Jordan

Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley
Audrey Tang

Free software programmer and the inaugural Minister of Digital Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Glen Weyl

Chair, Plurality Institute; Founder and Research Lead, Decentralized Social Technology Collaboratory, Microsoft Research; Founder, RadicalxChange Foundation