Primavera De Filippi

Primavera De Filippi is a Research Director at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris and a Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, where she studies the legal and governance questions raised by blockchain technology and artificial intelligence. She is the co-author of two influential books, Blockchain and the Law (Harvard University Press, 2018, with Aaron Wright) and Blockchain Governance (MIT Press, 2024), and she founded COALA, the U.N. Internet Governance Forum's dynamic coalition on blockchain technology. Alongside her academic work she is an artist, best known for Plantoid, a blockchain-based synthetic lifeform that collects funds and autonomously commissions its own reproduction, and her work has been shown at venues including the Centre Pompidou, Art Basel, and Ars Electronica. On Green Pill she hosts the Network Nations mini-series, exploring how online communities can grow into new forms of society and sovereignty.

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