Lauren Wagner

Email / X / Linkedin / Power SwitchComputational social scientist turned operator and investor; scaling infrastructure and startups to accelerate AI adoption.


Building
ARC Prize Foundation
[redacted] startups
Data & Trust Alliance
AI-Enabled Policymaking Project
Fellow, Abundance Institute
Venture Scout, Andreessen Horowitz
Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations
Actively Investing & Advising
Norm Ai - regulatory agents for critical industries
Antes - regulatory AI for the physical world
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Corporation - insurance for AI agents
Truth Systems - real-time governance agents
Haize Labs - automated evals and monitoring
Thinking Machines - personalized AI systems
Ndea - frontier AI lab for scientific advancement
Epoch Labs - navigation for GPS denied environments
Secludy - privacy guaranteed synthetic data
Overwatch Data - fraud and cyber threat intel
Metapause - women's longevity health concierge
Stealth - autonomous algorithm discovery
Cove - acquired
Speaking Engagements
A Patchwork Scorned - Mercatus Center
A New Regulatory Regime? - Lawfare
The Potential of Private AI Governance - The Road to Accountable AI
Diving Deeper Into DeepSeek - Just Security
AI and Journalism with the NYT and Vox - Curve Conference
The Future of AI Regulation: A California Bill Shaping the Debate - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Reimagining the Social Web - Everything in Moderation
Research & Writing
How Tech Created the Online Fact-Checking Industry - Pirate Wires
Want To Hold Tech Companies Accountable? - Tech Policy Press
OSTP RFI: U.S. National AI Action Plan - ARC Prize Foundation
AI Governance Through Markets - Power Switch
California’s Effort to Regulate AI Would Stifle Innovation - The Information
Trustworthy Future Web Report - Atlantic Council
NIST RFI: Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development of AI
Twitter + Health: The Effects of Micronetwork Structure on User Wellbeing - Journal of Mobile Technology and Medicine
Socioeconomic variation in recall and perceived effectiveness of campaign advertisements to promote smoking cessation - Social Science & Medicine
Acknowledged Contributions
Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook - Science
Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions - Science
Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing - Nature
Quotes
How conservatives learned to love ‘coding for hippies’ - Politico
‘Little Tech’ sets its sights on Washington - Politico
California Bill to Regulate A.I. Causes Alarm in Silicon Valley - New York Times
Commerce Department and VC Firms Partner on Responsible AI - Fortune
VC firms working with D.C. to "self-regulate" AI startup investing - Axios
Ex-Meta staffers see booming business targeting online disinformation - CNBC
Top VC Firms Sign Voluntary Commitments for Startups to Build AI Responsibly - Bloomberg
Past Lives
Meta
Google
Oxford Internet Institute
Cornell University
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