Research Programs

Advancing the frontiers of collective intelligence through rigorous research, open science, and global collaboration.

Core Research Areas

Our research spans multiple disciplines to advance collective intelligence

Collective Decision Systems

Developing AI-assisted frameworks that enable groups—from small teams to large organizations—to make better decisions together through improved information aggregation, deliberation support, and consensus mechanisms.

Decision TheorySocial ChoiceDeliberative DemocracyGroup Dynamics

Human-AI Collaboration

Creating interfaces and protocols that seamlessly integrate human and machine intelligence, leveraging the complementary strengths of both to solve complex problems.

Human-Computer InteractionAugmented IntelligenceCollaborative InterfacesWorkflow Design

Decentralized Knowledge Networks

Building peer-to-peer infrastructure for collaborative knowledge creation, verification, and dissemination at scale, ensuring resilience and censorship resistance.

Web3 & BlockchainKnowledge GraphsNetwork ScienceDistributed Systems

AI Governance & Ethics

Developing frameworks for the ethical development and deployment of AI systems in collective settings, with emphasis on fairness, accountability, and transparency.

AI EthicsGovernance DesignPolicy ResearchSocial Impact

Active Projects

Currently ongoing research initiatives

Active2023-2025

Deliberative AI Platform

Building an AI-powered platform that supports large-scale deliberation, helping groups of thousands make informed decisions through structured dialogue and information synthesis.

👥 15 researchers💰 $850K
Active2024-2026

Prediction Market Infrastructure

Developing decentralized prediction markets for collective forecasting, enabling groups to aggregate distributed knowledge about future events.

👥 8 researchers💰 $420K
Pilot2024-2025

Expert Network Mapping

Creating tools to automatically identify and connect experts across domains, facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge transfer.

👥 6 researchers💰 $280K
Active2023-2026

Collective Memory System

Designing persistent, shared knowledge repositories that learn from collective experience and support organizational learning and decision-making.

👥 12 researchers💰 $650K

Publications

Peer-reviewed research from our team

Scaling Deliberation: AI-Augmented Group Decision Making

Chen, S., Williams, M., Patel, A., Rodriguez, E.

AAAI 2025

We present a framework for AI-assisted deliberation at scale, demonstrating improved decision quality in groups up to 10,000 participants.

Decentralized Knowledge Graphs: A Survey

Kim, D., Okonkwo, J., Foster, M.

ACM TKDD 2024

A comprehensive survey of decentralized approaches to knowledge representation and reasoning, with implications for collective intelligence.

Ethical Considerations in Collective AI Systems

Patel, A., Sharma, P., Chen, S.

AIES 2024

We analyze ethical risks and mitigation strategies for AI systems that augment or aggregate human intelligence at scale.

Human-AI Complementarity in Collaborative Problem Solving

Williams, M., LeCun, Y., Li, F.

NeurIPS 2024

Empirical analysis of how human and AI capabilities can be combined to solve complex problems more effectively than either alone.

Open Source Tools

Free and open tools for the collective intelligence community

CollabAI Framework

Open-source Python/TypeScript framework for building human-AI collaboration systems with built-in deliberation support and decision aggregation.

2.4k starsTypeScript

Deliberate.js

JavaScript library for adding structured deliberation components to web applications, supporting discussion threading, voting, and synthesis.

1.8k starsTypeScript

Knowledge Graph Kit

Tools for building and querying decentralized knowledge graphs with support for collaborative editing and versioning.

956 starsPython

Forecast Protocol

Implementation of decentralized prediction market infrastructure with oracle integration and settlement mechanisms.

1.2k starsRust

Research Datasets

High-quality datasets for collective intelligence research

Collective Decision Corpus

10,000+ annotated group decision-making scenarios with outcomes

2.3 GBCC BY 4.0

Deliberation Transcripts

5,000+ hours of transcribed group deliberations

8.7 GBCC BY-NC 4.0

Expert Network Data

Collaboration networks from 500+ research organizations

450 MBCC BY 4.0

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We're always looking for research partners, institutions, and contributors to join our mission. Let's advance collective intelligence together.