How honeybees make collective decisions—and what we can learn from this amazing democratic process
Tom Seeley: Honeybee Democracy
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
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.
Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems
Abstract. Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated collective intelligence. Co
Five dimensions of scaling democratic deliberation: With and beyond AI
DemocracyNext's new paper on Five dimensions of scaling democratic deliberation: With and beyond AI
Critical Mess to Critical Mass: democratic innovation for collective climate action
How democratic innovation can build trust to unlock and mobilise collective intelligence for meaningful collective action. With Prof Oliver Escobar.
Why Online Democracies Fail - Eclectic Corvine Muses
A compendium to my upcoming proposal for community infrastructure within the AT Protocol
The Myth of Authoritarian Efficiency
When it comes to getting stuff done, democracies win every time.
It is a shame that "democratization" in software has come to mean broader access to products instead of participation in democratic processes — there is talk of LLMs democratizing software production, but I have yet to see social, collective and democratic processes govern the design of software.
