Equilibria Network

Equilibria Network is a collective intelligence research organization working on how groups — human, AI, or mixed — coordinate and make better decisions. The organization explores the design space of coordination mechanisms through simulations and rigorous mathematical foundations, treating markets, democracies, and other coordination structures as comparable formal systems.

Their research agenda is structured as a multi-phase roadmap progressing from theoretical foundations (developing a unified mathematical language for coordination and a taxonomy of agents) through infrastructure construction, validation, and ultimately the design of novel collective intelligence forms. Current outputs include published work on system-level safety evaluations, agent phylogenies, and spectral signatures of gradual disempowerment.

Equilibria Network builds two primary tools: the Democratic Resilience Lab, a governance simulation framework for stress-testing voting systems and governance structures against adversarial scenarios; and the DeSci Bridging Lab, a research discovery environment built on open protocols. The organization partners with Digital Democracy World on liquid futarchy implementations.

The core team includes Jonas Hallgren (Co-Director and AI safety researcher focused on multi-agent coordination), Aaron Halpern (Strategy and Ecosystem Lead with a PhD from University College London on the origins of genetic coding), and Markov Grey (Technology and Communication Lead, technical generalist and co-author of an early AI safety textbook). Advisors include researchers from Oxford University and the Cooperative AI Foundation. Jonas Hallgren is also a co-founder of AI Safety Sweden and former lead organizer of Effektiv Altruism Uppsala.