Research on AI, human agency, collaboration, and sustainable development.
Arguing that ending extreme poverty is affordable—roughly 0.3% of global GDP annually, or 14% of the wealth gained by global billionaires in 2025—and proposing a government-partnered, national-scale pilot of targeted cash transfers funded at around $1 billion a year over five years, to deliver immediate relief while generating the evidence needed to scale globally.
Read Article →Proposing "an ecology of institutions"—a networked, regionally-grounded architecture with shared functions but varied organizational forms—to monitor Earth system tipping points such as coral reef collapse and Amazon transformation, and to route critical environmental signals to the actors able to respond.
Read Article →An interview making the case that users can retain cognitive agency with generative AI by exercising control over their personal context, arguing that open-source AI harnesses offer an alternative to proprietary platforms—keeping power over data in users' hands rather than ceding it to vendors.
Read Article →Introduces "context-maxxing," a framework for user-controlled, open-source AI deployments that maximize individual command over human-AI interactions, arguing this path to cognitive agency requires new public investment and regulation to democratize AI capabilities globally.
Read Article →Proposing eight principles of "constructive incrementalism" for reforming the global trading system, where coalitions of willing nations can advance sustainable trade reform through regional agreements and phased implementation rather than requiring comprehensive multilateral consensus.
Read Article →A policy memo proposing the transformation of informal remittance flows into structured health insurance for African households through an ecosystem-building platform called "HealthBridge."
Read Article →Proposing a collaborative initiative inspired by the Human Genome Project to address the U.S. housing shortage through standardized data infrastructure and AI optimization across cities.
Read Article →An experimental application of human-AI collaboration to develop a five-part strategy for addressing extreme poverty, proposing $300-400 billion in interventions over five years.
Read Article →Introducing a collaborative methodology that integrates generative AI into team workflows from the beginning, emphasizing how AI can amplify human-to-human collaboration on complex global challenges.
Read Article →An experimental framework for integrating AI tools into team collaboration, demonstrating how vibe teaming can produce high-quality strategy outputs while freeing team members to focus on synthesis and problem-solving.
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