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Launching The Collective Intelligence Project: Whitepaper and Pilots
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Announces the Collective Intelligence Project, an incubator for governance models for transformative technology including AI, proposing collective intelligence capabilities as a complement to EA-aligned AI safety approaches.
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The Collective Intelligence Project (CIP) launches as an incubator for new governance models for transformative technology, focusing on collective intelligence capabilities—decision-making tools and institutions that help groups construct and cooperate toward shared goals. CIP frames major global challenges including AI risk as collective intelligence problems requiring better value elicitation and institutional design. The post invites EA community collaboration while acknowledging productive worldview disagreements.
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- •CIP is an incubator for governance models for transformative technology, with a mission to direct technological development toward the collective good.
- •Focuses on 'collective intelligence capabilities': decision-making technologies and institutions that expand groups' capacity to cooperate toward shared goals.
- •Current pilots include liquid democracy for values-aligned recommender systems, LLM-augmented discussion platforms, and a 'CI Corporation' capped-returns model.
- •Introduces the 'transformative technology trilemma' as a conceptual framework complementing EA's differential technological development concept.
- •Seeks collaboration with EA community on effective decision-making structures and pluralistic governance models for AI and other transformative technologies.
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| Entity | Property | Value | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collective Intelligence Project | Founded Date | 2022 | — |
| Collective Intelligence Project | Founded By | Divya Siddarth, Saffron Huang, and Jasmine Wang | — |
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# Launching The Collective Intelligence Project: Whitepaper and Pilots
By jasmine_wang
Published: 2023-02-06
[Divya Siddarth](https://divyasiddarth.com/), [Saffron Huang](https://saffronhuang.com/), and [Jasmine Wang](https://jasminew.me/) are launching [The Collective Intelligence Project](https://cip.org/) via publishing [our whitepaper](https://cip.org/whitepaper) today. You can read more about us online, but in this post we wanted to send an explicit invitation to collaborate out to the EA community, who we feel will have both have helpful synergies, skillsets, goals, and connections, whilst having productive worldview disagreements.
CIP is an incubator **for new governance models for transformative technology.** Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good. CIP will focus on the research and development of *collective intelligence capabilities*: decision-making technologies, processes, and institutions that expand a group’s capacity to construct and cooperate towards shared goals. We will apply these capabilities to *transformative technology*: technological advances with a high likelihood of significantly altering our society.
We believe that our most pressing challenges, including many cause areas prioritized by EA, can be characterized as collective intelligence challenges: pandemics, climate change, plutocracy, and catastrophic risks from technology all require better ways to set and execute on priorities.
We are especially interested in building better CI systems with, and for, transformative AI capabilities.
Where we think we have overlap with EA here: we agree that we need effective decision-making structures that require intentional design beyond just ‘incorporate people’s input’ or having ‘experts make good decisions’. We need a plurality of governance models; we’re over-reliant on just a few systems of value and risk.
We prioritize pilots over papers. Here are some of our current projects:
1. **New models of value elicitation, or ways to develop scalable processes for surfacing and combining group beliefs, goals, values, and preferences:** Currently, we are testing the use of liquid democracy for creating more values-aligned recommender systems; augmenting the emerging discussion platform [Narwhal](https://alpha.thenarwhalproject.com/welcome) with language model capabilities, and supporting consortia-based efforts from complementary projects such as [Pol.is](http://pol.is/), [the AI Objectives Institute](https://ai.objectives.institute/), [the Consilience Project](https://consilienceproject.org/), [RadicalXChange](https://www.radicalxchange.org/), and [New Public](https://newpublic.org/).
2. **Remaking technology institutions:** Our first pilot will be the ‘CI Corporation’: a scalable, capped-returns model for technology development and deployment. This builds from our past work on developing data [intermediary](https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/papers/data-freedom-act.pdf) [i
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