Ideas
I speak and write on decentralized justice, AI governance, and institutional design at leading universities, institutions, and international organizations.
Topics
Decentralized Justice & Kleros
How blockchain and collective intelligence are building the world's first decentralized arbitration protocol, and why it represents a new social contract for resolving disputes in the global digital economy.
Decentralized Justice & Kleros
How blockchain and collective intelligence are building the world's first decentralized arbitration protocol, and why it represents a new social contract for resolving disputes in the global digital economy.
The Future of Law
How AI and blockchain are rewriting the architecture of legal institutions (from smart contracts to algorithmic adjudication) creating new opportunities and challenges for lawyers, judges, and policymakers worldwide.
The Future of Law
How AI and blockchain are rewriting the architecture of legal institutions (from smart contracts to algorithmic adjudication) creating new opportunities and challenges for lawyers, judges, and policymakers worldwide.
Governance in the AI Age
Who governs the governors? Designing the oversight mechanisms for a world where AI systems make decisions at scale, and what new institutional frameworks are needed to hold them accountable.
Governance in the AI Age
Who governs the governors? Designing the oversight mechanisms for a world where AI systems make decisions at scale, and what new institutional frameworks are needed to hold them accountable.
Selected Talks
Decentralized Justice: A New Legal Paradigm
An exploration of how blockchain and game theory can reinvent arbitration, building a new legal infrastructure for the global digital economy.
Decentralized Justice: A New Legal Paradigm
An exploration of how blockchain and game theory can reinvent arbitration, building a new legal infrastructure for the global digital economy.
AI Governance & Human Values
How decentralized justice can keep AI aligned with human values in an increasingly algorithmic society.
AI Governance & Human Values
How decentralized justice can keep AI aligned with human values in an increasingly algorithmic society.
Prediction Markets and Decentralized Courts
An examination of how prediction markets and decentralized justice can be combined into a scalable architecture for resolving disputes in the digital economy.
![Federico Ast presenting at EthCC[9] on prediction markets and decentralized courts.](https://framerusercontent.com/images/4EofX2SsiS41NQJG8zfv687VXaY.jpeg?width=2016&height=2016)
Prediction Markets and Decentralized Courts
An examination of how prediction markets and decentralized justice can be combined into a scalable architecture for resolving disputes in the digital economy.
Justice Enters the Virtual Arena
How decentralized arbitration can handle player contracts, tournament conflicts, and digital asset ownership in esports.
Justice Enters the Virtual Arena
How decentralized arbitration can handle player contracts, tournament conflicts, and digital asset ownership in esports.
Political History and the Future of Governance
What centuries of political history can teach us about designing institutions that last.
Political History and the Future of Governance
What centuries of political history can teach us about designing institutions that last.
Who Moderates the Moderators?
How decentralized justice can tackle misinformation without concentrating power in platforms or governments.
![Federico Ast on stage at EthCC[4] presenting on decentralized justice and online free speech.](https://framerusercontent.com/images/mcHExJeIRCOS1g70c8nSZp28aE.png?width=2266&height=1488)
Who Moderates the Moderators?
How decentralized justice can tackle misinformation without concentrating power in platforms or governments.
Legal History and Digital Disruption
A long-run view of legal institutions, with blockchain and AI as the next chapter of that story. Talk delivered in Spanish.
Legal History and Digital Disruption
A long-run view of legal institutions, with blockchain and AI as the next chapter of that story. Talk delivered in Spanish.
Legal History and Digital Disruption
A long-run view of legal institutions, with blockchain and AI as the next chapter of that story. Talk delivered in Spanish.
Introduction to Kleros
An introduction to Kleros and the case for decentralized justice, presented at Thomson Reuters Generate 2018.
![Federico Ast on stage at EthCC[4] presenting on decentralized justice and online free speech.](https://framerusercontent.com/images/vaRHaUGZ4rQdpWpX9CLMSZgq6iI.png?width=1169&height=654)
Introduction to Kleros
An introduction to Kleros and the case for decentralized justice, presented at Thomson Reuters Generate 2018.
Introduction to Kleros
An introduction to Kleros and the case for decentralized justice, presented at Thomson Reuters Generate 2018.
Speaking Invitations
I accept select speaking invitations on law, technology, and institutional design.
Speaking Invitations
I accept select speaking invitations on law, technology, and institutional design.