person
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
MIT Connection Science director; computational social science
MIT professor and founder of computational social science. Author of Honest Signals and Social Physics. Public voice for data-driven society perspective on AI.
current Toshiba Professor, MIT Connection Science
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues data is collective property and should be governed via 'data cooperatives' rather than corporate ownership.
Data should be treated as a community asset. Data cooperatives are the institutional form that follows from that.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.