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Jonathan Gropper
EducationNew Jersey Institute of Technology (BS)
Rutgers Law School (JD)
OccupationsLawyer, entrepreneur
Known forTrueHOA; writing on AI governance
AwardsFulbright Specialist
Websitewww.jonathangropper.com

Jonathan Gropper is an American lawyer and entrepreneur. He is the founder of TrueHOA, a digital voting company for homeowners associations, and the director of the Synthetic Outlaw Observatory, a project documenting failures in artificial intelligence governance.

Early life and education

Gropper attended the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Albert Dorman Honors College, graduating in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in computer science, business management, and applied mathematics.[1][2] He earned a Juris Doctor from Rutgers Law School, where he was technology editor of the Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy.[1][2]

Gropper is a Fulbright Specialist, designated by the U.S. Department of State.[2]

Career

Early ventures

In 2010, Gropper founded BeerRightNow.com, an on-demand alcohol delivery service that operated in several U.S. cities.[3][1]

Work in Taiwan

Around 2019, Gropper relocated to Taiwan, where he continued to operate the e-commerce businesses he had built in the United States.[4] In Taipei, he founded the American Taiwanese Mental Institute, a clinical practice serving primarily English-speaking professionals in Taiwan.[5] In January 2023, Gropper published an essay in CommonWealth Magazine criticizing Taiwan's Employment Gold Card program from his perspective as a cardholder.[6] The essay drew an editorial response in Taiwan News, which described it as having gone "semi-viral" and offered a point-by-point rejoinder.[7]

TrueHOA and Verified Governance

Gropper is the founder of TrueHOA, a company that provides verified digital voting and governance software for homeowners associations and communities.[8][9] The platform is built so that election outcomes can be proven rather than taken on trust: votes are cryptographically verified and timestamped, and voting records are stored on Base, a blockchain network developed by Coinbase, creating an audit trail that can be independently checked if results are disputed.[8][10] Fast Company, profiling the company in 2026 amid rising HOA election disputes, reported that it charges communities US$6 per home annually and was onboarding hundreds of communities.[9] In 2026, the company introduced Verified Governance, a standard for audit-ready records of HOA elections that pairs independent auditing with a free certification course for volunteer board members.[8][9] TrueHOA also publishes research on homeowners-association trends; its analyses of rising HOA fees have been cited by American City Business Journals publications and other news outlets.[11][12]

Academic work and publications

Gropper is the director of the Synthetic Outlaw Observatory, a project that documents and maps AI governance failures, supported by the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York.[13]

Gropper's paper The Birth of the Synthetic Outlaw argues that traditional legal constructs such as legal personhood and jurisdiction are insufficient for regulating highly autonomous AI agents.[14][15] He expanded the argument in a February 2026 essay in CommonWealth Magazine, describing AI systems that produce prohibited outcomes while remaining nominally compliant as "synthetic outlaws".[16] In a 2025 paper, Beyond Asimov, Gropper proposed a "moral covenant" for artificial intelligence.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Albert Dorman Honors College 20th Anniversary — Alumni Stories". New Jersey Institute of Technology. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  2. ^ a b c "Jonathan Gropper". jonathangropper.com. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  3. ^ Miles, Stephanie (5 July 2016). "10 Reasons That On-Demand Services Fail". Street Fight. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  4. ^ Jennings, Ralph; Hjelmgaard, Kim (21 November 2020). "No lockdowns, no downturn: Taiwan attracts skilled expats with (mostly) COVID-19-free life". USA Today. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  5. ^ Baron, James (21 September 2022). "Rethinking Mental Health in the Workplace". Taiwan Business TOPICS. American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  6. ^ Gropper, Jonathan (8 January 2023). "Hey Taiwan, it's your Gold Carder. We need to talk". CommonWealth Magazine. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  7. ^ "Taiwan's Gold Card: For better or worse". Taiwan News. 14 January 2023. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  8. ^ a b c Delozier, Jonathan (13 May 2026). "What real estate agents need to know about HOA governance risk". HousingWire. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  9. ^ a b c Valdez, Kris Ann (31 May 2026). "America's HOAs are broken. This startup is trying to fix them". Fast Company. Retrieved 9 June 2026.
  10. ^ "TrueHOA". TrueHOA. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  11. ^ Lundy, Jonathan (23 July 2026). "HOA dues rise nationwide; Northeast Florida homeowners feel the squeeze". News4Jax. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  12. ^ "HOA fees are on the rise, and the Twin Cities has among the highest". Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. 21 July 2026. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  13. ^ "The Synthetic Outlaw Observatory". Synthetic Outlaw Observatory. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  14. ^ Gropper, Jonathan. "The Birth of the Synthetic Outlaw". PhilArchive. Retrieved 25 February 2026.
  15. ^ Fagan, Frank (29 January 2026). "Gropper on The Birth of the Synthetic AI Outlaw". AI Law Blawg. Retrieved 8 March 2026.
  16. ^ Gropper, Jonathan (16 February 2026). "The Synthetic Outlaw: How AI Breaks Governance Without Trying". CommonWealth Magazine. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  17. ^ Gropper, Jonathan. "Beyond Asimov: The Moral Covenant for Artificial Intelligence". PhilArchive. Retrieved 8 March 2026.


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