Network Societies

YouCongress MCP: Turning expert disagreement into structured decision reports

Connecting YouCongress to Claude to ask about AI safety, governance, impact on jobs, and more. For example, we analyse here 'What should Spain do to…

Apr 18 • Hector Perez Arenas

January 2026

Why the AGI race may be bigger near-term existential risk than misalignment

A Fermi-paradox metaphor for coordination failure

Jan 10 • Hector Perez Arenas

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December 2025

Human testimony in the age of AI

Why public decisions need sourced quotes, not just AI answers

Dec 28, 2025 • Hector Perez Arenas

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October 2025

The Perpetual Technological Cage

Unless superintelligence is developed under a global consensus, the risks will be shared by all, but the upside won't. This is why I signed the…

Oct 22, 2025 • Hector Perez Arenas

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September 2024

Tackling Moloch: How YouCongress Offers a Novel Coordination Mechanism

AI Polls + liquid democracy: Finding agreement, understanding disagreement.

Sep 8, 2024 • Hector Perez Arenas

January 2023

Voting site on top of Snapshot

This article describes how a new site could allow DAO members to choose more than one delegate.

Jan 25, 2023 • Hector Perez Arenas

How we all could have a say on AI Governance

AI experts say that we humans need to agree on AI governance. The voting mechanisms I described could help.

Jan 23, 2023 • Hector Perez Arenas

Rebundling governance

Balaji Srinivasan argues that the Internet unbundles and rebundles industries. E.g. albums -> songs -> playlists. Governance could be next.

Jan 19, 2023 • Hector Perez Arenas

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Voting social network

Liquid democracy with many delegates makes a new voting social network possible.

Jan 18, 2023 • Hector Perez Arenas

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Liquid democracy with multiple delegates

Most liquid democracy experiments fail because voters can only choose one delegate.

Jan 17, 2023 • Hector Perez Arenas

Thinking aloud — Bad ideas

Here I explain why I'd like to share more thoughts and ideas.

Jan 16, 2023 • Hector Perez Arenas

September 2022

AI & polarization

I recently described new voting mechanisms for decentralized autonomous organisations (DAOs). A fair question to ask is whether augmented voting would…

Sep 22, 2022 • Hector Perez Arenas

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