Pax Machina Launches: A New Publication Focused on AI-Era Institutions
ryan_t_lowe · x · 2026-08-05
A new publication, Pax Machina, has been introduced, dedicated to exploring the institutions humanity needs in the face of powerful AI.
The platform argues that too much attention is paid to aligning or regulating AI while treating human institutions as fixed. Backed by a team of renowned scholars, it aims to seed rigorous debate about a world of humans and powerful AI, publishing proposals and counterproposals for new institutional frameworks.
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