Amplifying Human Creativity and Problem Solving with AI Through Generative Collective Intelligence
This addresses the problem of overcoming limitations in purely algorithmic problem-solving for societal challenges, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing human-AI collaboration concepts.
The paper tackles the challenge of enhancing human-AI collaboration by proposing Generative Collective Intelligence (GCI), a framework that uses AI as interactive agents and knowledge organizers to bridge human reasoning and AI models, aiming to solve complex societal problems like climate adaptation and healthcare.
We propose a general framework for human-AI collaboration that amplifies the distinct capabilities of both types of intelligence. We refer to this as Generative Collective Intelligence (GCI). GCI employs AI in dual roles: as interactive agents and as technology that accumulates, organizes, and leverages knowledge. In this second role, AI creates a cognitive bridge between human reasoning and AI models. The AI functions as a social and cultural technology that enables groups to solve complex problems through structured collaboration that transcends traditional communication barriers. We argue that GCI can overcome limitations of purely algorithmic approaches to problem-solving and decision-making. We describe the mathematical foundations of GCI, based on the law of comparative judgment and minimum regret principles, and briefly illustrate its applications across various domains, including climate adaptation, healthcare transformation, and civic participation. By combining human creativity with AI's computational capabilities, GCI offers a promising approach to addressing complex societal challenges that neither humans nor machines can solve alone.