Frontiers in Collective Intelligence: A Workshop Report
This is an incremental report summarizing discussions for researchers in AI and related fields.
The report summarizes a workshop on collective intelligence that aimed to advance AI through interdisciplinary research on how intelligence emerges from interactions among agents, resulting in key themes and identified frontiers for future work.
In August of 2021, the Santa Fe Institute hosted a workshop on collective intelligence as part of its Foundations of Intelligence project. This project seeks to advance the field of artificial intelligence by promoting interdisciplinary research on the nature of intelligence. The workshop brought together computer scientists, biologists, philosophers, social scientists, and others to share their insights about how intelligence can emerge from interactions among multiple agents--whether those agents be machines, animals, or human beings. In this report, we summarize each of the talks and the subsequent discussions. We also draw out a number of key themes and identify important frontiers for future research.