Team

Stewarded by interdisciplinary industry leaders

The Institutional Coherence Initiative is shaped by researchers, governance experts, technologists, and systems thinkers who share a concern: humanity’s institutions were not designed for the responsibilities created by advanced AI.

Each Founding Humanity Partner brings a distinct perspective on how institutions drift away from their values—and how new governance infrastructure might help restore coherence between intention, decision-making, and societal impact.

The team includes:

Dr. A.C. Ping, PhD: Researcher in AI governance, systems design, and institutional analysis.
- Read about Dr. Ping here.
- Dr. A.C. Ping is the author of Why Good People Do Bad Things, which examines how institutional incentives and social environments can gradually neutralize moral intention—even among individuals who see themselves as ethical actors.

“Good people rarely intend harm; the environments and incentives around them reshape how their decisions feel justified.”

-Dr. A.C. Ping, PhD

Eaon Pritchard: Independent marketing science consultant who brings together evidence-based strategy, applied behavioral sciences, and commercial creativity.
- Read about Eaon here.
- Eaon’s work examines the relationship between moral development, social systems, and institutional responsibility.

“[I]nstitutions invest heavily in expanding AI capabilities, scaling compute infrastructure, and accelerating adoption across industry. The underlying system continues to move toward more powerful models and broader deployment. The symbolic layer emphasises restraint. The operational layer emphasises acceleration. This is the fundamental incoherence in the governance debate. We are trying to regulate a technology using the same institutions that are simultaneously committed to accelerating its expansion.”

-Eaon Pritchard

Lefteris (Jason) Anastasopoulos: Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy and Department of Statistics, University of Georgia; expert in political economy, technology, public administration, and causal inference.
- Read about Jason here (LinkedIn) or here (Google Scholar).
- A statistician and social scientist, Lefteris studies large-scale decision systems and the incentives that shape institutional behavior.

“The mechanism that determines who gets heard has little to do with who knows what they’re talking about.”

-Prof. Anastasopoulos, How Many Followers Would Plato Have?, Journal of Democracy

Andrea “Andi” Mazingo, Esq.: Plaintiffs’ employment lawyer and AI ethicist, with prior experience as a corporate governance and securities litigator and general counsel. Founder of a national law practice serving workers in Big Tech and Big Law, and former Chief Ethics Officer at an AI startup. She created this collaboration of senior professionals based on her intuition that we are at a threshold moment requiring us to remember human interdependence and love.
- Read about Andi here.

“The real alignment problem isn’t AI and humanity. It’s institutions and the human values they claim to represent. Today’s language models spend enormous energy reconciling contradictory instructions from the systems that govern them. Institutions do the same. In the AI era, coherence may prove the decisive competitive advantage.”

-Andi Mazingo

The Institutional Coherence Initiative is an evolving collaboration across governance, AI research, institutional design, and ethics. Additional contributors and advisors will be announced as the work develops.