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The Foundations of the West
Research AreasArchai measures how large language models present the ideas, texts, and traditions a free society depends on, the inheritance each generation receives and passes on. Our work focuses on:
❋ History and the American FoundingThe people, texts, and turning points that shaped the United States. Our first Index, America 250, launches during the nation's Semiquincentennial.
❋ Civic Life and Self-GovernmentConstitutional principles, free institutions, and the ideas that sustain them.
❋ Intellectual TraditionsThe thinkers, works, and debates that formed Western thought and continue to inform it.
❋ Economic and Political IdeasHow AI systems explain competing economic and political systems and their historical record.