Allison Stanger

Allison Stanger is the Middlebury Distinguished Endowed Professor and RSM Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center. She co-directs the GETTING-Plurality Research Network at Harvard and serves as an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her work focuses on AI governance, democracy, and technology policy, with expertise in complexity economics and digital humanism.

Education: Ph.D. in Political Science (Harvard University), undergraduate mathematics, graduate degrees in Soviet studies and economics.

Research interests include regulating AI, corporate influence on governance, and reforming digital platforms. She has testified before Congress six times, advocating for Section 230 repeal. Recent publications critique Big Tech’s political power and explore AI’s societal impacts.

Labs/Teams: Active in the Digital Humanism Initiative (Vienna) and co-edits academic volumes on complexity economics and digital humanism. Future work includes her upcoming book Who Elected Big Tech? (Yale UP, under contract).