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Tom Seeley: Honeybee Democracy
A Roadmap to Democratic AI — The Collective Intelligence Project
Our roadmap outlines concrete steps that can be taken in 2024 to build a more democratic AI ecosystem that is adaptive, accountable, processes decentralized information, provides public goods, and safeguards human wellbeing. We describe what the ecosystem could build, research, advocate for, and fun

Liquid Democracy: True Democracy for the 21st Century
Liquid Democracy, a subset of Delegative Democracy, is a powerful voting model for collective decision making in large communities. Liquid…
To Bees or Not to Bees: Greater Honeyguides Sometimes Guide Humans to Animals Other Than Bees, but Likely Not as Punishment
We show that greater honeyguides guide humans to nonbee destinations (snakes and a dead mammal); yet this is a rare occurrence, happening in only 3.7% of human-honeyguide interactions in 1 year and 0...

Reciprocal signaling in honeyguide-human mutualism
Honeyguide birds recognize human honey-hunters calls and help them find wild bees’ nests.

AI and the knowledge commons
The Ecosystem
Create collective knowledge by crowdsourcing and adapting governance innovations.
Democracy and the Epistemic Commons - The Consilience Project
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What does it mean for AI to be democratic?
Some pushback on a specific fuzzy idea with some ominous implications

(PDF) Hunters and Guides: Multispecies Encounters between Humans, Honeyguide Birds and Honeybees
PDF | This paper discusses the relationship between humans and honeyguide birds (Indicator indicator) in the Adamaoua Region of Cameroon. Throughout... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Experts Warn of AI Swarms Hijacking Democracy With Fake Citizens
Researchers warn of the growing risk of massive AI swarms manipulating popular sentiment and upending democracy as we know it.

Opinion | Give ranked voting a shot. Our democracy would benefit.
Ranked-choice voting empowers the majority by allowing voters to order their choices.

Democracy as a Scaled Collective Intelligence Process: Points of Vulnerability and Augmentation
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Democracy Policy Network
Together, we can build the foundation for a deeper democracy.

An epistemology for democratic citizen science
Abstract. More than ever, humanity relies on robust scientific knowledge of the world and our place within it. Unfortunately, our contemporary view of scie

"I can’t help but view Community and the State as two sides of the same coin: Apparitions of the mind construed in a desperate attempt to eliminate violence with the assumption that conflict can be controlled. -
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