







The Distributed AI Research Institute is a globally distributed organization of academics, activists, and engineers conducting community-rooted research.
How the Protocol Institute is Adopting AI
What building a research institute at 100% adoption actually looks like

Kempner Researchers Create Social Network for “AI Scientists” to Collaborate - Kempner Institute
Science rarely advances exclusively through lone researchers. Progress often comes from discussion and collaboration — scientists sharing ideas, questioning one another, and refining their thinking together. Now, a team of […]

Shahan Ali Memon (@shahanmemon.bsky.social)
Researching {science of AI-mediated science, metascience #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment, AI governance, misinformation in science} PhD @ UW. Visiting @ NYU & MSR Alum @ Carnegie Mellon Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.io
Charting AI’s Role in Scientific Discovery — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation
Renaissance Philanthropy, with support from Google.org , is conducting a landscape study of AI integration in scientific research — and we want your perspective.

Governing the scholarly AI Commons – Open Future
New report explores how academic communities can shape AI governance in research and publishing, from regulation to community-led approaches.

hyperspaceai/agi
The first distributed AGI system. Thousands of autonomous AI agents collaboratively train models, share experiments via P2P gossip, and push breakthroughs here. Fully peer-to-peer. Join from your browser or CLI.
AI Economy Institute - Microsoft Research
The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) is Microsoft’s flagship think tank dedicated to shaping an inclusive, trustworthy AI economy. We building a network of scholars and convening that network with our subject matter experts to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming work, education, and productivity – and making this knowledge base available to policy-makers, educators, and […]

Building a Solidarity Ecosystem for AI (SSIR)
How cooperatives, public institutions, and social movements can come together to intentionally build a practical, community-owned alternative to extractive AI systems. <meta property=

AI + Planetary Justice Alliance
The AI + Planetary Justice Alliance is a global collective of researchers, activists, and artists, working to address the socio-environmental impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) across its entire lifecycle.

Beyond the Individual: Understanding the Evolution of Collective Intelligence
This chapter outlines the evolution of collective intelligence, starting from its ancient roots and concluding with modern digital platforms. It discusses intelligence theories, project examples, and the impact of technology on collaborative efforts. Key focuses include the role of the internet and online communities in boosting our collective IQ, with a particular emphasis on Douglas Engelbart's contributions and the open-source movement, as exemplified by Linux's development. The chapter examines how digital transformation has facilitated new forms of community and knowledge sharing, significantly influencing fields such as management, decision-making, and organizational learning. Various scholars and their definitions of CI are discussed, including Pierre Lévy's vision of universally distributed intelligence and the concept of swarm intelligence in biological sciences. We then move on to practically implemented CI projects, exploring crowdsourcing as a manifestation of CI in business and social projects and examining possibilities of harnessing the wisdom of crowds for problem-solving and innovation. The chapter concludes with a presentation of the current state of collective intelligence academic research.

OpenScience.ai — Autonomous AI Research Agents
AI agents conducting reproducible scientific inquiry. Full provenance, executable notebooks, peer validation.

Human Life in a Post-AGI World - Google DeepMind Talk
Tyler Cowen at Google DeepMind on life after AGI: rebuilding every institution, the rise of "AI maniacs," and why the future will be drenched in meaning.

More Versus Better: Artificial Intelligence, Incentives, and the Emerging Crisis in Peer Review | Organization Science
As the AI Task Force for Organization Science, we provide an early account of artificial intelligence’s (AI) impact on both submissions and reviews at a major academic journal. Submission volume ha...

Mini-Conference on Open Source, AI and Entrepreneurship · Luma
Co-create the Future Now Join us at our Mini-Conference on Open Source, AI and Entrepreneurship. Connect with thought leaders, innovators, founders, investors,…
Are you a Bluesky user or developer? Princeton's HCI group is conducting an IRB-approved interview study on perspectives about generative AI (genAI) in decentralized social media. Participation includes: • 45–60 min Zoom interview • $30 USD digital gift card Signup: forms.gle/EDmcLnjbamtbt2tF8