Focus Areas
Our focus areas form the foundation of our integrated matrix structure, organizing our work into three primary domains with interconnected subtopics.
Focus in 2025
Innovative Topics for Investment
These focus areas represent cutting-edge opportunities for forward-thinking investors seeking both impact and returns. By directing capital toward these emerging technological governance challenges, investors can help shape more equitable, sustainable, and human-centered technological futures while positioning themselves at the forefront of tomorrow's growth markets. Our research indicates that early engagement with these governance frontiers creates competitive advantages for organizations that understand and address these challenges proactively, turning potential risks into strategic opportunities. We provide specialized investor briefings on each of these domains to support informed capital allocation decisions.
Human Autonomy & Rights
Addressing challenges to human agency, dignity, and rights in technological systems
Algorithmic Behavioral Manipulation
Dark patterns and addictive design erode autonomy and mental health, creating dependency and undermining user agency.
Digital Identity
Research on privacy-preserving identity systems, authentication standards, and governance frameworks.
Linguistic Technology Interfaces
Examining how language shapes technology development and use across cultures and contexts.
Surveillance Capitalism
Pervasive tracking enables micro-targeted misinformation and democratic erosion, threatening social cohesion.
Predictive Policing Bias
Crime algorithms reinforce systemic discrimination and false risk labeling, perpetuating injustice.
Algorithmic Gig Work
Opaque ratings and pay systems suppress wages and worker rights, creating precarious labor conditions.
Digital Sovereignty
Asymmetric power over digital infrastructure threatens national and individual autonomy in the digital realm.
Fair Labor Algorithms
Automated management systems reshape workplace dynamics, raising concerns about fairness and worker dignity.
Neurotechnology
Analysis of brain-computer interfaces, neural data governance, and cognitive liberty frameworks.
AI Systems
Research on machine learning transparency, algorithmic bias, and AI safety mechanisms.
Environmental & Resource Impact
Examining the ecological and resource implications of technological development
Data Colonialism
Cross-border data extraction exploits Global South populations without fair value return, perpetuating inequality.
Synthetic Biology
Examination of gene editing technologies, biosafety protocols, and international governance approaches.
AI Energy Footprint
High-compute models drive carbon emissions and strain renewable transition targets, challenging sustainability goals.
E-Waste Stream
Rapid hardware churn fuels toxic waste and unsafe recycling in low-income regions, creating environmental hazards.
Supply Chain Abuses
Cobalt and rare-earth mining for devices linked to child labor and conflict finance, raising ethical concerns.
Circular Economy Tech
Designing technology systems for regeneration and reuse to minimize resource extraction and waste.
Sustainable Innovation Pathways
Developing frameworks for technology that regenerates rather than depletes ecological systems.
Space Technologies
Analysis of space debris mitigation, satellite governance, and sustainable space utilization.
Economic & Social Equity
Addressing disparities and structural inequities in technological systems and markets
Autonomous Finance
High-frequency AI trading amplifies flash crashes and systemic market risk, threatening financial stability.
Health Data Gaps
AI diagnostics under-serve women and minorities, widening treatment inequalities and health disparities.
Digital Exclusion
AI language models overlook low-resource languages, marginalizing cultural knowledge and communities.
Tech Monopolization
Platform lock-in stifles competition, raises costs, and limits open innovation, concentrating power.
Quantum Computing
Research on quantum computing governance, security implications, and post-quantum cryptography.
Our Matrix Approach
Our focus areas connect all aspects of our work in an integrated knowledge system. Explore our Matrix Structure →