Collective intelligence for collective progress.
collective intelligence (CI), def.
Effective, decentralized, and agentic decision-making across individuals and communities to produce best-case outcomes for the collective.
Launching our Roadmap for Democratic AI
March 2024
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We are an incubator for new governance models for transformative technology.
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We conduct research using collective intelligence as an organizing principle. Right now, we are piloting structures for collective governance of generative AI, and developing funding models that expand the traditional economic definitions of public and private goods.
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We pilot CI experiments with partners to test theory in practice. We’re working on language model augmented online discussion with Narwhal, and citizens’ assemblies for making collective decisions over AI deployment.
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We connect researchers, builders and organizations, to create an ecosystem that implements great CI ideas. We’re convening workshops on AI and institutional design, and building the Collective Intelligence Almanac.
Our goal: To overcome the transformative technology trilemma.
Existing tech governance approaches fall prey to the transformative technology trilemma. They assume significant trade-offs between progress, participation, and safety.
Market-forward builders tend to sacrifice safety for progress; risk-averse technocrats tend to sacrifice participation for safety; participation-centered democrats tend to sacrifice progress for participation.
Collective flourishing requires all three. We need CI R&D so we can simultaneously advance technological capabilities, prevent disproportionate risks, and enable individual and collective self-determination.