A two-layer program stack
APPL organizes its work across substantive issue domains and the operating formats that turn those issues into tangible governance surfaces.
Program logic
One institutional systemAPPL’s program stack is organized in two layers. The first layer defines the substantive issues the institution tracks. The second defines the formats through which those issues become tangible, discussable, and usable in real decision contexts.
Issue domains
Substantive focus areasDevelops governance prototypes, baseline commitments, decision frameworks, model-behavior surfaces, and public-interest standards that shape how advanced systems are designed, deployed, overseen, and interpreted.
Examines labor shifts, educational drift, cultural homogenization, civic mistrust, manipulation, identity effects, and public-meaning collapse that often escape purely technical safety frames.
Focuses on loss of control, strategic instability, institutional brittleness, cascading failure, delegation failure, and preparedness gaps without allowing existential risk to swallow the broader social frame.
Operating formats
How APPL worksDisciplined inquiry into plausible future conditions, contingent failure paths, governance gaps, and public consequences.
Builds inspectable policy-comprehension surfaces including tabletop games, software, agentic-system experiments, UX artifacts, future documents, and decision environments.
Runs public and private workshops, teaching formats, seminars, salons, and structured sessions with organizations, companies, labs, and public-interest institutions.
Produces exhibitions, festivals, conferences, gatherings, pop-ups, screenings, and mission-aligned collaborations that widen awareness without flattening the stakes.