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Online platforms, and the large companies that run them, increasingly mediate our free expression, economic activity, and family and community life. With this shift, we face a multitude of potential intrusions into our private lives, including the risk of new forms of surveillance and censorship.

These platforms are increasingly held responsible—by politicians, the media, and even their own employees—for allowing and amplifying harmful actions their users. This includes the spread false information, violent extremism, targeted harassment, and other societal harms. This has led to a rise in moderation, narrowing the scope of acceptable speech and behavior.

Would Elon Musk’s vision have been better, or was it unworkable? Regardless of who’s in charge, are central authorities the right governance approach, or would these challenges be better handled by distributed communities? Will the future continue the trend of tech concentration, or will the pendulum swing back—potentially with the help of regulators—from the cathedral of Big Tech to the bazaar of the open web?

We invite you to join us as we explore these issues and more, covering the balance and the boundaries of free speech, and the future of online platforms.

// Research Manager, Stanford Internet Observatory // 

// CEO, Murmuration Labs; Co-Founder, Digital Trust & Safety Partnership // 

 // Senior Fellow, Lincoln Network; Author of 

// Director, Stanford Internet Observatory; Founding Partner, Krebs Stamos Group // 

Abundance is an ideologically diverse movement including policy experts, public officials, business leaders, and philanthropists collaborating on solutions to drive America’s economic prosperity.

For the first time, we will convene this community at 

 — a two-day, invite-only conference this October in the nation’s capital. During the inaugural gathering, we will be joined by some of the brightest figures crafting solutions for housing, infrastructure, energy, innovation, agriculture, and government capacity.

Our goal is to advance policy ideas, so that no matter the outcome of the upcoming election, the Abundance movement can set a formative agenda for our nation’s future.

 at the center of the Abundance conversation who will share ideas and actionable steps to advance impactful policies.

Abundance 2024 will take place in downtown Washington, DC, 

. Event registration is free through your personalized link. Invitations to this event are not transferable.


A two-day, invite-only conference this October in the nation’s capital.

We have the power to create an abundant future for humanity. But instead, we’ve clogged up every path to progress with red tape and vetocracy.

As humans with agency, we can build the future we want. But progress is neither inevitable nor one-dimensional. To realize that future—with abundant clean energy, inexpensive housing, human-centered artificial intelligence, and mastery of synthetic biology—we must simultaneously avoid complacency about our potential and fatalism about risks. We must identify and break through the bottlenecks that are holding us back.

The inaugural Bottlenecks Summit is an invitation-only unconference bringing together thinkers, builders, creators and policy entrepreneurs working to overcome bottlenecks to human progress and abundance. The event will take place on Friday, September 6, 2024 in San Francisco, California.

An invitation-only gathering bringing together founders, artists, policy entrepreneurs, and builders working to overcome the obstacles to an abundant future. 

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