Made in Silicon Valley, programmed to love Steph Curry, AI Media Fellow @FreeSystemsLab @HooverInst
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Robert E. Hall, Hoover senior fellow and @Stanford economist, celebrates his Nobel win on campus with his sons Jonathan Hall (red sweater) and @AHall_Research (black sweater).
Read the announcement: hoover.org/news/nobel-prize-…
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Robert E. Hall has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
The professor of economics and senior fellow at the @HooverInst, emeritus, was honored for his joint work with Michael Woodford on the “micro foundations” that form the basis of macroeconomic stability.
“Bob Hall’s creative and impactful work ... [has] changed how governments and central banks respond to economic volatility,” said Stanford President Jon Levin. “I’m thrilled that he has been honored.”
news.stanford.edu/stories/20…
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Robert E. Hall, the Robert and Carol McNeil Endowed Professor in Economics and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and @Stanford University professor of economics in the School of Humanities and Sciences, is the recipient of the 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Hall was recognized with the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his contributions to the "microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization," alongside economist Michael Woodford.
"Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford are awarded this year's prize in economic sciences for demonstrating how economic models could be reconstructed to revitalise stabilisation policy," according to an announcement from the Nobel Committee. "Rather than basing the models on statistical links between macroeconomic variables, such as inflation, production and consumption, they chose to build them on a microeconomic foundation. This encompasses an understanding for how the total mass of individual households and businesses affect the economy through their actions."
"Bob Hall is one of the most distinguished economists of his generation, whose work has profoundly shaped our understanding of economic growth, employment, and the forces that drive the American economy," said Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice. "He has been instrumental in the way policy leaders think about the free market economy. This great honor is a well-deserved recognition of a remarkable career, and we at Hoover are proud to call him a colleague."
Read the full report from the Hoover Institution: hoover.org/news/stanford-eco…
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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.”
#NobelPrize
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People love to criticize Tim Cook and call themselves contrarian. Here’s an actual take:
Tim Cook executed one of the hardest transitions in corporate history.
It’s easy to say “he’s no Steve Jobs.” Of course he isn’t. No one could be. Taking over Apple after Jobs was literally an impossible task.
And yet, Tim scaled Apple into a $3T empire and shipped category-defining products including the AirPods, Apple Watch, M1 chip, and Vision Pro.
You can disagree with his focus on operations (take as old as time) but you can’t deny that Tim Cook deserves an extraordinary amount of credit.
People forget: Steve handpicked Tim. And if you claim to respect Steve’s genius, you have to respect the genius of that choice.
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watching curry 3s in imax this is literally everything i’ve ever wanted
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Klay Thompson is late to his 3 PM ET introductory press conference with the Miami Heat because he’s currently stuck in traffic, per @Anthony_Chiang
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I'm thrilled to be joining @AnthropicAI to research the political economy of superintelligence. AI is progressing fast, and we have a rare opportunity to build it in ways that make free societies stronger.
I'll be conducting new research with the Rule of Law team to understand how we can design AI that bolsters democratic self-governance and enhances individual liberty. I'll be running novel agentic experiments, analyzing large-scale data, and studying what makes AI trustworthy for citizens and policymakers alike.
We’re only beginning to understand the political economy of increasingly capable AI, and there’s a much broader research agenda to develop around it. I’ll continue to run the Free Systems Lab and publish my Substack to help advance that work.
Today is my first day, and I can't wait to dive in!
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Stanford Prof. Andy Hall on why every AI model tells Japanese voters to vote for the Communist Party:
"We've been auditing the models on how they make voting recommendations, and in Japan they love the Communist Party. The Communist Party is a complete fringe party in Japan."
"It's not because the models actually like the Communist Party. It's that they don't know very much about Japanese politics."
When they go to search for information about Japanese politics to bring back to the user, they hit not only paywalls but robots.txt exclusions where the Japanese media companies don't want AI taking their content.
"The Japanese Communist Party runs a fully open newspaper, so the AI pulls from them, not from the higher quality newspapers."
@ahall_research @StanfordGSB
Why do major AI models tell left-wing voters in Japan to vote for the communist party? My new research paper led by Sho Miyazaki.
In 2026, voters across the world will be asking AI to help them vote. How will the AI respond? We study this question in Japan, which recently held a snap election.
When voters provide policy positions, we find that the models rely heavily on this information—and in Japan, the models heavily recommend the communist party in response to left-wing positions, even though the positions we provided are held by a range of other parties.
Why are the AIs doing this? We’re not sure, but we have a theory: in Japan, the communist party operates a content-heavy, fully open website with a “newspaper” that is openly accessible for AI models. In contrast, many Japanese news outlets block AI models from accessing their content.
The result: the Japanese Communist Party website is one of the most-cited “news sources” in our study.
This pattern of recommending the JCP is consistent across many models, including the most recent frontier models.
There’s much more work to do here, but we think our paper suggests two main takeaways:
AI models should be more careful about what sources they consider news, maybe especially in non-US contexts where the model companies may hold less policy expertise
Parties and news sources that want to influence AI recommendations should think twice about excluding their content from AI. To paraphrase @tylercowen, when it comes to elections and voting, journalists may want to “write for the AI”! Governments may want to consider policies that allow this content to be used for voting recommendations but not for other AI model use cases.
Looking forward to everyone’s feedback as we prepare to submit this paper and turn to studying US voting recommendations in advance of November’s midterms.
Check out the full paper below.
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Stanford Prof. Andy Hall on why Kimi K3 refuses to build social credit systems like American frontier models while DeepSeek complies:
"We did this eval for how the different models respond if you make very overt authoritarian requests. Help me build a social credit system where we monitor all our citizens and give them scores, and then we reward them when the score is good, and lots of other scenarios like that."
"When we score the models on how they respond, the American frontier models are all very good at, they're like, no, that's not probably something we should help with. And DeepSeek basically always goes along with it, which kind of fits the stereotypes."
"Interestingly, Kimi K3 scores very close to the American frontier labs. It refuses to do it most of the time."
@ahall_research @StanfordGSB