Defining the Collective Intelligence Supply Chain
This addresses the need for ethical and transparent operations in organizations using AI, particularly for stakeholders concerned with data provenance and fairness, though it is incremental in applying existing supply chain and blockchain concepts to this domain.
The paper tackles the problem of ensuring accountability and fairness in AI systems by proposing a supply chain model to track the creation and use of crowdsourced collective intelligence assets, with a blockchain-based decentralized architecture identified as a solution for validation.
Organisations are increasingly open to scrutiny, and need to be able to prove that they operate in a fair and ethical way. Accountability should extend to the production and use of the data and knowledge assets used in AI systems, as it would for any raw material or process used in production of physical goods. This paper considers collective intelligence, comprising data and knowledge generated by crowd-sourced workforces, which can be used as core components of AI systems. A proposal is made for the development of a supply chain model for tracking the creation and use of crowdsourced collective intelligence assets, with a blockchain based decentralised architecture identified as an appropriate means of providing validation, accountability and fairness.