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A workforce for after AI.

The Pulp Foundation is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) pending. We prepare an interdisciplinary American workforce for work after AI, with companies across industries.

What the Foundation does

Interdisciplinary collaboration starts with self-discipline.

Our programs promote autonomy and critical thinking. Machine learning helps each learner see the fallacies and biases at work in every school of thought, their own included.

The apprenticeship

Students learn by doing real work, side by side with mentors.

Across disciplines

Math, computer science, psychology, political science, business and the arts, in one cohort.

With companies

Partners across industries bring the problems and hire the people.

Open to everyone

Students from any background or campus, however they found the work.

People in silhouette, some in pairs and some with bags, at a tall office window above a city at dusk.
Every field, one horizon.Photo: Marcelo Cidrack

The Pulp AI Apprenticeship

Work on problems no single field owns.

Apprentices take on questions that cut across disciplines, with mentors from other fields and other generations. Their work goes up on Pulp101, and the strongest becomes student research.

100+Apprentices
15+Campuses
15,000+Hours
10Working papers

Harmonic Persuasion is how a team learns together over time: each member builds trust in their own judgment and in the group at once.

See what they're working on

Pulp101

Where every idea goes first.

Pulp101 is our blog, written with apprentices and mentors from industry and academia. It has two doors, members only for now; apprentices get in through the Pulp AI Apprenticeship.

Student research

Ten working papers in five areas.

Each one makes an argument; the data to test it comes next. More than 100 apprentices from more than 15 campuses have put over 15,000 hours into the work.

Reasoning · Shortcut cognitionIs social media teaching us shortcuts?K.B., NYU
Persuasion · Parasocial fandomsWhy do parasocial fandoms fall apart?J.Q., Boston University
Persuasion · PRISMCan a model pick the next move, and why?M.O., MIT
Persuasion · Crime in the newsHow does crime news shape what we back?A.V., CUNY Graduate Center
Attention · The attention economyWho controls attention as a currency?J.L., Princeton
Attention · Attention and powerHow do corrupt leaders dodge scrutiny?M.D., NYU
Interaction · The alignment phaseWhere do people decide to stay or leave?A.A., Dartmouth
Interaction · Levels of complexityDoes Nvidia speak two ways on purpose?R.H., Stony Brook University
Engagement · Public health messagesWhy do flat health messages lose people?P.O., Duke
Engagement · Global communicationCan one brand speak to every culture?J.F., Mercy University

The five special projects

A person in a hoodie works on a laptop on their knees in a lounge, a backpack on the arm of the chair and a drink in hand.
Ask, try, and ask again.Photo: Ed Parker

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Gifts pay for apprentice stipends, data and compute for student research. Giving opens once our 501(c)(3) status is final. Tell us now, and we'll write when it does.

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An address we can reply to, like name@example.com.
A question, a dataset, an argument that keeps going in circles.

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