The Intelligent Futures Lab is a research group at the University of Oregon studying how AI, blockchain, and related technologies are changing the way organizations work, govern themselves, and create value.
Our research looks at how AI and blockchain are reshaping coordination, authority, and value creation inside organizations — and what those shifts mean for the people doing the work.
We're grounded in organization theory, and most of what we do falls into four areas: decentralized governance, algorithmic organizing, digital assets, and human-AI interaction.
Across these areas, we build theory that explains how intelligent and distributed systems change the way decisions get made, how teams work together, and how organizations are designed. The point isn't theory for its own sake. It's to give the people adopting these technologies a clearer view of what they're adopting and what's at stake.
Our methods range from field studies inside real organizations to controlled experiments and large-scale data analysis. We work with academics, students, and partners outside the university — funds, DAOs, nonprofits, agencies — wherever the questions are live.
Decentralized
Governance
How blockchain and DAOs reshape authority and collective decision-making.
Algorithmic
Organizing
How AI systems alter coordination, roles, and organizational design.
Digital
Assets
How tokenization and crypto markets transform value creation and exchange.
Human-AI
Interaction
How people collaborate with intelligent systems and what it means for work.
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