Collective intelligence is on the rise—and it is, in fact, much more effective than our individual brains. That’s the main argument that neuroscientist and bestselling author Hannah Critchlow presents ...

In the management world right now, it is common to think about AI in terms of automation vs. augmentation. Whereas automation implies machines taking over tasks previously performed by humans, ...

They are one of nature's most spectacular and most mysterious spectacles — moments where hundreds if not thousands of animals, herrings, starlings, beetles, appear to move together seemingly as one ...

How do we move forward? How do I move forward? These questions have been haunting me for the past few months. In my experience, democracy has never seemed more fragile. And in my efforts to further ...

How will you find the best way forward for your business in our crisis-prone, volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world? No leader is smart enough anymore to do it alone. But the collective ...

When it comes to reimagining urban planning, William Eggers talks about the paths children make in the snow. You can hire an urban planner to lay out the walkways in a playground based on the way ...

Adding AI to teams often backfires, combining AI's limitations with human biases. Solution: Build one shared decision space, define clear hand-offs, and improve with each cycle.

Tackling the emergence of a new global pandemic is a complex task. But collective intelligence is now being used around the world by communities and governments to respond. At its simplest, collective ...

A recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study revealed the possibility of combining knowledge representation models and collective intelligence (CI) for complex decision-making tasks.

For over a decade, Thomas Malone, founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, has been conducting pioneering research on the collective intelligence of groups. Prof. Malone ...