Augmented
Collective
Intelligence
Human-AI networks
in a virtual future of work
A once-in-a-generation opportunity: we can radically improve how we work, by complementing people’s intelligence with increasingly smart machines that compound ideas and signals - irrespective of distance, and at hyperscale.
What they are
Intelligent networks are made of large numbers of people and AI-powered machines, connected in a distributed knowledge-work architecture. They are “superminds”, and new organizational designs can capture their power.
What they do
From CEO to movement organizers, harness the full collective cognitive power of people networks, organizations and ecosystems. The result: stronger ideas, implemented faster.
The detailed and continuously updated Principles, Practitioner Guidebook, and Database provide an overview, frameworks, detailed examples, and ultimately a playbook for designing and managing an AI-augmented collective intelligence - a supermind.
Inspired by a decade of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Collective Intelligence and its Design Lab (more here.)
Artificial Intelligence:
Four C’s
AI helps people sense, remember, create, decide and learn collectively. At hyperscale.
Connect
…the right people, and machines. For instance: knowledge graphs pinpoint the right nodes in the network and make them discoverable to each other, irrespective of how distant they are.
Curate
…information into usable knowledge. For instance: natural language processing and computer vision source relevant information; automated data discovery identifies patterns people miss; generative design.
Collaborate
Remove friction in the process of generating and applying ideas. For instance: natural language processing translates content; machine learning optimizes video and voice data transmission.
Compute
…any other prediction. For instance: machine learning determines contributors worth rewarding, detects spam or fake inputs, or identifies strictures in high-volume process flows.
How to build an Augmented Collective Intelligence
Design and manage four areas
Illuminate
Network nodes see each other
Energize
Participants are incentivized, and goals aligned
Feed
The network benefits from fresh, relevant knowledge
Wire
Collaboration methods and platforms