Collective intelligence as governance of AI, and AI for collective intelligence.

This topic covers the distinction between democracy and collective intelligence, why you might choose one over the other, and where they trade off. How does human CI and artificial CI intersect? What can societies of humans and agents can produce? What are the open questions?

Some examples

• Democratic Inputs to AI - CIP & Open AI
• Collective Constitutional AI: Aligning a language model with public input - CIP & Anthropic
• Community Models
• weval.org & participatory evaluations

On human & agent societies

• The Habermas Machine & habermolt - where next?
• Harnessing the Collective Intelligence of AI Agents in the Wild for New Discoveries