Our Team — The Collective Intelligence Project
webThe Collective Intelligence Project (CIP) team page introduces key personnel working on directing AI and technological development toward collective benefit, including figures with backgrounds in AI governance, digital democracy, and participatory AI development relevant to AI safety governance.
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This page presents the team of the Collective Intelligence Project (CIP), an organization focused on directing technological development toward the collective good. Key members include co-founder Divya Siddarth (formerly at UK AI Safety Institute), Senior Research Fellow Audrey Tang (Taiwan's first Digital Minister), and specialists in global partnerships, neuroscience, and human computation. CIP works at the intersection of AI governance, collective intelligence, and democratic participation.
Key Points
- •CIP's mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good, with a focus on participatory and democratic AI governance.
- •Co-founder Divya Siddarth has direct AI safety experience as AI and Democracy lead at the UK's AI Safety Institute.
- •Senior Research Fellow Audrey Tang, Taiwan's first Digital Minister, brings expertise in collective intelligence platforms and AI governance.
- •The team combines expertise in political economy, neuroscience, human computation, digital rights, and global policy.
- •CIP represents an organizational approach to AI safety through collective intelligence and democratic participation mechanisms.
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| Entity | Property | Value | As Of |
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| Collective Intelligence Project | employee-count | 10 | 2026 |
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Our Team — The Collective Intelligence Project
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Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.
Team
Divya Siddarth
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Divya Siddarth is the executive director and co-founder of CIP. Previously, she has been a political economist and social technologist in Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, the AI and Democracy lead at the U.K.’s AI Safety Institute, and held positions at the Ethics in AI Institute at Oxford, the Ostrom Workshop, and the Harvard Safra Center. She graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in Computational Decision Analysis in 2018
Evan Hadfield
Projects Lead
Evan is a specialist in Human Computation, with past experience at Twitter and Clara Labs. An early organizer with Interact, a community of forward-thinking technologists, he has presented on the convergence of metaphysics, religion, society, and transformative tech. He lives in Mount Shasta, California.
Faisal M. Lalani
Head of Global Partnerships
Faisal M. Lalani is a global community organizer with a background in building international coalitions, advising policymakers, and preserving human rights and democracy. He has worked all over the world — including in Nepal, South Africa, India, the UK, Sri Lanka, and the US — and has expertise in digital rights, education reform, public health, climate and energy transitions, clinical psychology, foreign policy, and social movements.
Zarinah Agnew
Research Director
Zarinah is a neuroscientist, that now works on emerging technologies and the science of collectivity. They had a 15 year career in academia, were then president of Irrational Labs & the Social Science Observatory, and remain faculty at London College of Political Technology. In previous lives, Zarinah has run a science hotel, been an Aspen Foresight Fellow and a science consultant.
Joal Stein
Communications and Operations Lead
Joal Stein is a communications strategist working across art, philosophy, and technology. He has received fellowships from Banff Centre, Au
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