Andrew Sorota

Andrew Sorota is a researcher and strategist working on how artificial intelligence is reshaping democratic life, and how institutions must adapt in response. He is head of research at the Office of Eric Schmidt, where he leads special projects on AI, geopolitics, and the future of democracy. He is also pursuing a Ph.D. in political theory at Yale University, developing an account of democracy for an AI-mediated world.

Sorota has launched grantmaking initiatives to enhance democratic deliberation and oversight of advanced AI, and he advises governments and organizations on new models of public decision-making. He is part of the Max Planck Institute’s Informational Democracy working group, writing on what citizenship means in the age of AI agents. Previously, he worked with Fareed Zakaria on his book Age of Revolutions and his CNN program, Fareed Zakaria GPS. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Noema, and Foreign Policy.