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    Andrew B. Hall
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    Andrew B. Hall is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Davies Family Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). Hall’s research sits at the intersection of politics, technology, and governance. He is the founder and director of the Free Systems research lab, housed across Hoover and GSB, which studies how to preserve human liberty in an increasingly algorithmic world.

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Andrew B. Hall is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Davies Family Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). Hall’s research sits at the intersection of politics, technology, and governance, using large-scale data and AI to study how societies organize collective decision-making and design institutions that maintain public trust.

Hall is the founder and director of the Free Systems research lab, housed across the Hoover Institution and GSB. The lab studies how to preserve human liberty in an increasingly algorithmic world. Its work combines empirical research with real-world experimentation, including stress-testing frontier AI models, conducting governance pilots, and prototyping tools to help individuals keep a say in how AI and online platforms are governed. Hall writes a popular weekly newsletter by the same name, Free Systems.

His work on artificial intelligence includes studying how AI systems influence political behavior and information environments, and how they should be governed. He built the first systematic evaluation to understand whether frontier AI models resist authoritarian requests, which was used by Anthropic to train and evaluate their Opus 4.8 model.

Hall advises organizations working at the frontier of technology and governance. He serves as a research advisor to the a16z crypto research team, where he studies decentralized governance and institutional design, and advises Forum AI on AI governance. Previously, he spent eight years advising Meta Platforms on governance and strategic issues in global affairs, and later, in the Wearables Business Group. He is the author of Who Wants to Run? How the Devaluing of Political Office Drives Polarization (2019).

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