Digest Issue 86: Examining Constitutional AI | Pollen & Nectar | Drivers are challenging Uber with their own Denver startup. Here’s how it’s going | Practical Decentralization
Curated collection of grey literature on the interactions between society and technology.
Examining Constitutional AI
Date: 2026-04-13
Contributor: Sofia Bonilla
By Theodora Skeadas, Iain Levine, Stephanie Nakano, and Leah Ferentinos This blog is the first in a series from the Integrity Institute that examines the risks and potential harms that Claude’s constitution may pose to a broad user base. This post defines constitutional AI, examines the implicati
The Agentic Shift: Navigating the New Human-AI Workflow
Date: 2026-05-04
Contributor: David Polgar
All Tech Is Human, in collaboration with the Notre-Dame IBM Tech Ethics Lab, is holding two workshops in July in NYC on Agentic AI. As artificial intelligence transitions from a passive tool to an active agent with the advent of agentic AI, the fundamental nature of how we work is undergoing a pr
How to Tackle Thorny Tech & Society Issues: The All Tech Is Human Method
Date: 2025-12-09
Contributor: David Polgar
By David Ryan Polgar, Founder & President of All Tech Is Human
America’s AI Exports Program
Date: 2026-03-02
Contributor: Georgia Adamson
Strategic goals and implementation recommendations for US policymakers
Navigating Media Publishing in an Agentic World
Date: 2026-04-07
Contributor: TBA
Surveying the landscape of standards and protocols that allow publishers to get paid in an agentic web.
Pollen & Nectar
Date: 2026-03-25
Contributor: TBA
Putting perceptual hashes to work on the ATmosphere
When Value Keeps Moving
Date: 2026-05-06
Contributor: Grassroots Economics; Njambi Njoroge; Joy
Support Becomes Circulation
The Civilizational Stakes: Public Goods Funding as Coordination Rehearsal
Date: 2026-03-06
Contributor: TBA
Why the coordination capacity being built through onchain funding mechanisms is a general-purpose capability that civilization needs -- and why the window to build it is finite.
Ecological Institutions → Protocols to Grow Autonomous and Convivial Ecological Actors
Date: 2025-12-10
Contributor: Austin Wade Smith
Written by Austin Wade Smith, Executive Director of the Regen Foundation, in collaboration with the Earth Law Center and the Regen Network Development PBC. All illustrations credit of the author.This essay outlines tangible means by which we may evolve beyond advocacy for the living world into new patterns and processes of agency for non-human kin. How might an expanded understanding of the social enable non-humans to possess their own land titles and contracts, license their own data, compen...
Drivers are challenging Uber with their own Denver startup. Here’s how it’s going
Date: 2026-04-21
Contributor: Outside Contributor
Drivers Cooperative wants to treat drivers better, but faces one big challenge.
Practical Decentralization
Date: 2026-02-25
Contributor: Paul Frazee
The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology.
Slur, Safety and Social Media: Workshop Reflections from Coimbatore
Date: 2026-04-02
Contributor: Poorvi Gupta
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