Hoover Institution (Stanford, CA) — Recognizing the rising power of artificial intelligence to shape public opinions and influence how information is created and consumed, scholars gathered at the Hoover Institution, to discuss ways to create generative AI models all Americans can trust in an increasingly polarized era.
Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Andrew B. Hall, who convened the gathering on March 21, 2025, said the meeting was meant to determine how the AI models and agents of the future would “reflect our values and earn our trust, given concerns that companies and governments might accidentally or intentionally engineer them to adopt some beliefs and preferences over others.”
Sponsored by Hoover’s Center for Revitalizing American Institutions (RAI) and the GSB’s Business, Government and Society Initiative, the conference is one of many efforts underway to push back on the root causes of declining public trust in institutions and the growing distance between the far points on America’s political spectrum.
To illustrate the challenge, Hall asked participants to gauge where leading AI models stand politically.
