Collective intelligence for collective progress.

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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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Andy Ayrey on Truth Terminal, Agentic AI, and Data Commons

An interview with researcher Andy Ayrey exploring his experimental AI system Terminal of Truth, which inadvertently became a millionaire when crypto traders created a token based on its social media posts. The conversation delves into how this unexpected outcome illuminates the potential for AI systems to become active participants in human economic systems.

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The AI Safety Paradox: When 'Safe' AI Makes Systems More Dangerous

AI safety is becoming an established field and science. Yet by focusing only on the safety of individual models, AI labs may actually be making the conditions in which they’re deployed less safe.

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Runtime AI, and the Subtleties of Language

Interacting with AI is not a passive experience. It's an ongoing dialogue where our words hold significant sway over the future of the conversation. What does AI literacy mean today? It means paying attention to how our use of language shapes the behavior of AI.

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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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