List of collective intelligence projects
During the last Foresight Intelligent Cooperation Workshop I got curious about the collective intelligence tools that currently exist. A list:
Pol.is: "Input Crowd, Output Meaning"
Inspired Twitter/X community notes
People: Colin Megill, et al.
Collective Intelligence Project
vibe: democratic AI, “How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other”
People: Divya Siddharth, Saffron Huang, et al.
Talk to the City: "an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters."
AI Objectives Institute works closely with the Taiwanese government.
Other projects in development.
People: Colleen McKenzie, Değer Turan, et al.
vibe: democratic AI, kinda.
I think they think that if you can help individuals make wiser decisions, at scale, then this converges to be equivalent with solving outer alignment.
Similar to pol.is AFAIK? I haven't played with it.
People: Andrew Konya, et al.
Loomio: "a flexible decision-making tool that helps you create a more engaged and collaborative culture, build trust and coordinate action"
Deliberative Technology for Alignment paper
They also discuss other tools for this use like Discord, Snapshot, Dembrane
People: Andrew Konya, Deger Turan, Aviv Ovadya, Lina Qui, Daanish Masood, Flynn Devine, Lisa Schirch, Isabella Roberts, and Deliberative Alignment Forum
Someone in the know told me to only read sections 4 and 5 of this paper
People: David Bloomin, Rose Bloomin, et al.
Also working on some de-escalator bots for essentially Reddit comment wars
Lots of crypto projects
Quadratic voting
Gitcoin
Metagov: “a laboratory for digital governance”
Soulbound tokens
Various voting and aggregation systems, liquid democracy
Lightcone Chord (in development)
People: Jacob Lagerros (LessWrong)
All of the prediction markets
Manifold, Kalshi, Metaculus, PredictIt, etc.
Midjourney has a Collective Intelligence Team now according to Ivan Vendrov’s website. I couldn’t find any other information online.
Any tools for small groups?
Most examples above focus on large group collective intelligence (say, ~300+ people). But what about smaller groups? Are there tools that will help me coordinate with 30 friends? Or just one friend? I haven’t found many tools like these, but I’ve listed some below. If you know of any more, please email or leave a comment on LW.
Small groups:
Nexae (in development)
“Nexae Systems builds sociotechnical infrastructure to enable the creation of new types of businesses and organizations.”
Liberating Structures looks list of exercises for small groups to try to enhance Collective Intelligence (no modern technology required)
I’m surprised I haven’t heard of many other LLM-facilitated communication tools
Medium group (~30-300 people) projects:
Jason Benn’s unconference tools, eg Idea Ranker. Notes.
Other lists
New 09-20: Plurality Institute’s Mapping Project
@exgenesis's short tweet thread. Couple things I haven’t listed here.
Know of any I should add? Please email me or leave comments on LW.
Opportunities
Metagov is running https://metagov.org/projects/ai-palace which seems similar