Allison Stanger

Allison Stanger is Distinguished Endowed Professor at Middlebury College; Co-Director (with Danielle Allen), GETTING-Plurality Research Network and Faculty Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar, Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), Stanford University; Distinguished Senior Fellow, James A. Martin Center for Non-Proliferation Studies; Senior Fellow, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, Bard College; founding member of the Digital Humanism Initiative (Vienna); and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Stanger’s next book, Who Elected Big Tech?: How Your Phone Hijacked the Constitution is forthcoming with Yale University Press.

Stanger’s writing has appeared and/or been reviewed in The Atlantic, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, CACM, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, New Yorker, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Wired. She is the author of Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump (Yale University Press, 2019) and One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy (Yale University Press, 2009). Stanger is the co-editor (with Hannes Werthner et. al.) of Introduction to Digital Humanism: A Textbook (Springer, 2024), which is open access, and co-editor (with W. Brian Arthur and Eric Beinhocker) of Complexity Economics (SFI Press, 2020).

Stanger has been called to testify before Congress on six occasions (by both Republicans and Democrats) and has briefed the White House, the European Commission, the House AI Caucus, the Energy and Commerce Democrats, and the FTC on both Section 230 reform and issues of AI governance.

Stanger received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. She majored in Mathematics as an undergraduate and also has graduate degrees in Soviet Studies and Economics. She is conversant in both ancient and modern computing languages (APL, Assembler, BASIC, Cobol, Fortran, C++, Java, HTML, Python).