Hi, Brandon Spiess here.

Founder & CEO, Code of Nations

We’re building the legal infrastructure layer for autonomous systems.

My primary areas of interest are below. If they’re things you like to chat about, please send me a note.

• Machine-Readable Law & Legal Infrastructure
• Constitutional Frameworks for AI
• AI Governance & Regulatory Policy
• Game Theory & Mechanism Design
• Bioengineering, Biomanufacturing, Biotechnology
• Neural Control & Engineering
• Political Philosophy
• Theology (Historical / Biblical)

brandon [at] codeofnations [dot] org

My email address may change without notice to reduce spam-email, etc.

Recent Reading

• Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
• The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• The Education of Cyrus by Xenophon
• The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
• The City and Man by Leo Strauss
• Evening in the Palace of Reason by James Gaines
• Flashes of Thought by H.H. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
• The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis De Tocqueville
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
• City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism by Jim Krane
• From Third World to First: The Singapore Story by Lee Kuan Yew
• Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State by T.D. Allman
• City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis
• Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past by J. Storrs Hall
• ON POWER: The Natural History of Its Growth by Bertrand De Jouvenel
• Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity by Hartmut Rosa