Divya Siddarth | Collective Intelligence for Collective Progress

Jul 13, 2023

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ANECDOTE

Personal Journey Into CI Work

Divya described her background from civil society, pandemic policy, and Microsoft that motivated CIP's founding.
She says pandemic policy exposed fractured decision-making and inspired the goal to improve collective decisions.

INSIGHT

Aim For A Fourth Path

Most collective intelligence mechanisms currently tend toward one of the trilemma failure modes.
CIP seeks a fourth pathway that mixes the upsides of progress, participation and safety without the failures.

INSIGHT

Polycentrism Over Binary Centralization

CIP challenges binary thinking about decentralization vs centralization and promotes polycentric systems.
Polycentrism blends coordination capacity with autonomous centers that check each other to reduce capture and single points of failure.

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Divya Siddarth

Divya is the co-founder of the Collective Intelligence Project, which advances collective intelligence capabilities for the democratic and effective governance of transformative technologies. She serves as Associate Political Economist and Social Technologist at Microsoft’s Office of the CTO. She also holds positions as a research director at Metagov and a researcher in residence at the RadicalXChange Foundation.

In today’s rapidly evolving world, where technology is at the forefront of progress, the need for effective collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence is more crucial than ever. In this engaging and thought-provoking talk, we will explore the concept of collective intelligence and discuss how it can be harnessed to drive collective progress in various domains, including science, technology, and social innovation.

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