Giving Groups Control Over the Rules of the Game, in Simulation, in the Lab, and in the Wild – Frey (2026) on Santa Fe Institute YouTube

Santa Fe Institute

13 Feb 2026

Giving Groups Control Over the Rules of the Game, in Simulation, in the Lab, and in the Wild

Seth Frey, University of California, Davis

Social systems change in unpredictable ways, particularly when power in them becomes power over them. This affects outcomes for collective behavior, collective intelligence, and collective action. In this work we present observational, experimental, and modeling work on the psychological, selective, and structural forces that cause governance institutions to drift from their that of its intended design.

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