Matt Prewitt.
Lawyer, writer, technologist. I work on what AI is for, who it should answer to, and who owns the information it’s made of.
01Writing
- Papers
- Collective Bargaining in the Information Economy Can Address AI-Driven Power Concentration NeurIPS 2025 · w/ N. Vincent & H. Li
- Toward Associational Data Rights IFS 2026 · w/ D. Cochrane, L. Strahm, S. Viljoen
- Ownership and Punishment U. Chicago Law Review
- The Data Freedom Act RadicalxChange 2020
- Talks
- Form Without End Topos Institute 2026
- Collective Bargaining for Data RxC 2020
- On Democracy and Media, with Fred Turner RxC 2020
- Collective Decision Making Green Pill
- Social Technology & Community Currencies Edge City
- Also: WEF Agile Governance (Tokyo), MyData (Helsinki), ZuConnect (Istanbul), Global Solutions (Berlin).
02Built
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Figleaf
Say what you mean without it being used against you.
figleaf.pro →Hivemind’s Constitution
Binds an AI system to a purpose, not just a list of harms. Prudence governs.
03Work
- 2026Hivemind, model behavior & alignment
- 2025–RadicalxChange, co-founder & researcher
- 2025–OpenMined, attribution-based control
- 2023–Collective Intelligence Project, advisory council
- 2018–25RadicalxChange, president; co-founded with Glen Weyl, Vitalik Buterin, Audrey Tang & co.
- 2013–18Litigator at Orrick and Cuneo Gilbert; clerk to Judge Griesa, S.D.N.Y.
Convened RxC in DetroitBerlinDenverWarsawLondonOaklandPortland