I am an interdisciplinary scholar affiliated with the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. My research draws upon my background in economics, philosophy, and political theory, focusing on the impacts of generative AI on political and educational institutions.
I serve as the Coordinator for Studies at PPE Prague at the Institute of Political Studies. I teach and write in Czech and English.
Research
My main interest lies in seeking ways to expedite institutional adaptation to technological shocks and improve the robustness and performance of our key institutional infrastructure. I am also interested in futures studies and progress studies.
Research programme
AI institutional transformation
How universities and democratic institutions can harness AI’s benefits while preserving the human epistemic agency essential to democratic societies.
Journal article · Social Epistemology
Machine Advisors
Large language models can access more information than human experts and tailor their findings to individuals’ needs. Could their use broaden the access of democratic assemblies to expert knowledge?
Funded project · 2024–2026
Look Who’s Talking?
What epistemic effects can be expected of LLMs in democratic settings, and how can we improve the odds that this technology will serve democracy rather than harm it?
Book
Published by Routledge, my first book Behavioral Political Economy and Democratic Theory: Fortifying Democracy for the Digital Age examines the friction between modern technology and human rationality within liberal democracies. As we move further into a digitally-driven information age, challenges such as disinformation and extreme political polarization become more prominent.
Using a behavioral economics approach, the book explores solutions to these issues while maintaining democratic values and optimizing democratic decision-making. It advocates for a behaviorally grounded theory of democracy and discusses how our understanding of human rationality’s limitations can help shape robust democratic institutions.
Recent activity
August 2026 · Working paper
Built for Humans Only?
Why AI adoption in higher education requires a new deal: the structural mismatch between generative AI and the organizational logic of universities, and a portfolio-based alternative to grades.
July 2026 · Conference talk
Speakers for the Dead
AI proxies and the political economy of intergenerational governance, with Lucy Císař Brown. European PPE Network Conference, University of Bayreuth.
June 2026 · Keynote
AI Is Here. What Now?
Opening keynote of the Učím na Ostravské festival, University of Ostrava, on what universities should do now that students use AI daily. In Czech.