{"slug": "emergent-ventures-winners-58th-cohort", "title": "Emergent Ventures winners, 58th cohort", "summary": "Emergent Ventures, a fellowship program by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, announced its 58th cohort of winners, including Jethro Elsden to study the UK's regulatory structure using AI, Gabe Sekeres from Cornell to explore letting AI run an economy, and Oliver Pryce from Cambridge for work on mathematics, AI, and a unified representation of geometry and physics.", "body_md": "# Emergent Ventures winners, 58th cohort\n\n[Jethro Elsden](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jethro-elsden-427b5959/), London area, to study the regulatory structure of the UK using AI.\n\n[Paula Benedetti](https://cairnproject.org/ambassadors/paula-benedetti), Buenos Aires, marine biology work in Brazil.\n\n[Nyida Gyal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nyida-gyal-524820303/), 17, northern Virginia, AI and data.\n\n[Gabe Sekeres](https://gabesekeres.com/), Cornell, what if an economist just lets AI run?,\n\n[Ollie Payne](https://olli.vision/), NYC, Future Aesthetics Foundation.\n\n[Jacob Watson-Howland](https://www.jacobwatsonhowland.com/), London, podcast on science and progress.\n\n[Cameron Monroe](https://jcameronmonroe.com/), UC Santa Cruz, archaeology in Ghana.\n\n[Björn O. Öste](https://bjornoste.com/), archaeology and Peru.\n\n[Oliver Pryce](https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-pryce-597747376/), Cambridge, mathematics, AI and a unified representation of geometry and physics.\n\n[Demetre Tsiklauri](https://www.linkedin.com/in/demetre-tsiklauri-823162379/), Tblisi, 16, general career support, building a student network in Georgia.\n\n[Shannon Wong](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-wong-7b1367243/), Paris/Antarctica, general career support.\n\n[Lydia Farnham](https://science.works/about/), London, matching donors and projects.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-58th-cohort", "canonical_source": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/08/emergent-ventures-winners-58th-cohort.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=emergent-ventures-winners-58th-cohort", "published_at": "2026-08-26 05:19:50+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-26 05:43:03.357027+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Emergent Ventures", "Mercatus Center", "George Mason University", "Jethro Elsden", "Gabe Sekeres", "Oliver Pryce"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-58th-cohort", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-58th-cohort.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-58th-cohort.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-58th-cohort.jsonld"}}