AGI Institutions Grid

Abstract: Designing Institutions for a World with Powerful AI

​We are excited to welcome Oliver Klingefjord from the Meaning Alignment Institute to present on his work developing an "AGI Institutions Grid." The grid is a visual framework mapping the institutional designs they think need to exist. The rows are scales of interaction (dyadic to global) and the columns are institutional functions (protocols, preferences, rights, incentives, etc.).

​This work emerged through a collaborative process: In February 2026, The Meaning Alignment Institute brought 25 researchers together in Paris, co-located with the IASEAI conference, for a day-long workshop on “AGI-ready institution design”. Their backgrounds ranged from mechanism design and social choice theory to legal theory, political philosophy, behavioral science, and climate policy. Participants came from DeepMind, Oxford, UC Berkeley, the Australian National University, GovAI, Mila, the AI Democracy Foundation, the Cooperative AI Foundation, the University of Michigan, and several other institutions.

​The goals were to first test how much alignment there was across these disciplines on what the post-AGI institutional landscape should look like, and which success criteria matter for specific design problems. Second, start working through some of the harder underlying questions that any serious institutional proposal will eventually have to confront.

​We look forward to hosting Oliver to share their learnings with the Metagov Community! See the full grid at www.agi-institutions.org/ and read more on their newsletter: meaningalignment.substack.com/p/designing-institutions-for-a-world

game theoryhuman-computer interactionsocial and information networkslaw and economics

Audience: researchers in the discipline

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