My name is Ian Beacock – & I put ideas to work for the public good. Criss-crossing disciplines, I focus on the past, present, & future of democracy.
R&D at Jigsaw/Google. Foundational strategic research that helps inspire & inform our AI portfolio for human agency.
Now:
Director of Strategy at Gemic, focusing on tech & society. Historian of democracy, trained at Stanford (PhD 2019).
Before:
Authored public roadmap on AI for civic dialogues with 13 global experts. Fieldwork in Singapore, Sydney, Kentucky, Austin, LA, Manila, São Paulo, Tokyo, CDMX, Vancouver. Interviewed on WNYC/NPR’s On the Media re: conspiracy theories. Prizewinning HCI article on information habits.
