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.

  • We conduct research using collective intelligence as an organizing principle.

  • We pilot CI experiments with partners to test theory in practice.

  • We connect researchers, builders and organizations, to create an ecosystem that implements great CI ideas.

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.

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