Research meeting series · Artificial Collective Intelligence

Superintelligence for Humanity

A continuing research and workshop series on shared cognitive infrastructure for human agency, dignity, and accountable AI.

The series convenes researchers, builders, and institutional partners for deep discussion and working workshops on Artificial Collective Intelligence: systems through which humans, agents, and institutions can reason, coordinate, preserve provenance, respect consent, surface disagreement, and learn together.

Featured speakers and organizers

Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Bruce Schneier, Divya Chander, Hiroaki Kitano, Michael Levin, Tricia Wang, John N. Pasmore, Ujjwal Kumar, and a wider cross-disciplinary roster.

Portrait of Blaise Agüera y ArcasPortrait of Bruce SchneierPortrait of Divya ChanderPortrait of Hiroaki KitanoPortrait of Michael LevinPortrait of Tricia WangJohn PasmorePortrait of Ujjwal KumarSpeaker roster

Full recording

Watch the inaugural summit

The full May 18-19, 2026 inaugural Superintelligence for Humanity event is now available here and in the archive.

Meetings

Research meetings

The first summit opened the ACI conversation. The continuation salon has now concluded, moving the work toward a shared agenda, publishable synthesis, benchmarks, collaborations, and follow-up working workshops.

I. Inaugural Summit

Concluded

Superintelligence for Humanity

May 18–19, 2026 · Harvard + California Institute for Machine Consciousness · Cambridge, MA

The first event established the core ACI frame: governed collective intelligence, tacit expertise, provenance, consent, revocability, and accountable human-AI institutions. The full recording is now available in the archive.

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II. Continuation Salon

Closed

Building Superintelligence for Humanity

May 26, 2026 · Harvard University · Cambridge, MA

The second event continued the summit conversation as a focused working session on definitions, tools, benchmarks, pilot collaborations, and a joint paper. Follow-up workshop information, video, and selected materials will be published soon.

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Research frame

The throughline

ACI is treated here as infrastructure: not a slogan for more capable models, but a design program for accountable coordination across people, machines, and institutions.

Governed cognitive infrastructure

Common context, memory, and coordination protocols that allow humans, agents, and institutions to reason together under accountable rules.

Tacit expertise and provenance

Technical and institutional primitives for capturing situated judgment while preserving authorship, context, consent, revocability, and auditability.

Plural reasoning and disagreement

ACI must preserve calibrated dissent, uncertainty, local epistemic authority, and diversity of heuristics instead of collapsing every view into one opaque answer.

Benchmarks and pilot collaborations

Focused experiments that test coordination, agency, trust, institutional learning, and cross-domain intelligence transfer rather than model scale alone.

Scientific frame

Why this needs workshops

The series approaches ACI as a technical and institutional research problem. The challenge is to build systems that can aggregate knowledge without erasing diversity, coordinate action without suppressing dissent, and compound memory without losing consent or context.

ACI as a distributed learning system

The series frames ACI as a socio-technical system in which humans, models, tools, memories, incentives, governance, and communication channels jointly shape collective behavior.

Governance as architecture

Provenance, consent, revocation, audit trails, access rights, and local authority are treated as design requirements, not policy annotations added after deployment.

Resource-bounded coordination

Useful collectives must allocate finite attention, compute, trust, and experimentation under uncertainty, while remaining robust to faults, correlated errors, and adversarial behavior.

Agentic AI and collective reasoning

Recent work on agentic AI, reasoning models, and societies of thought motivates a serious examination of how structured diversity, debate, and coordination can improve machine and human reasoning.

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Follow-up

Next phase

The next phase of Superintelligence for Humanity will move from event recap to research production: sustained conversations and working workshops that prepare the technical, governance, and institutional foundations for ACI.

01

Deep discussions

Invite focused exchange among researchers, builders, institutional partners, and civic leaders on the core assumptions, constraints, and failure modes of ACI.

02

Working workshops

Convert the discussion into artifacts: definitions, architecture diagrams, governance protocols, benchmark designs, and concrete pilot proposals.

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Preparation for ACI

Prepare for ACI as shared cognitive infrastructure that protects human agency while enabling plural, accountable human-AI collectives to learn and act.

Work in progress

Outputs in progress

The meetings are designed to leave behind a usable research trail: public arguments, practical evaluation targets, workshop artifacts, and collaborations that can be tested.

01

A joint paper on Artificial Collective Intelligence and shared cognitive infrastructure.

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A concise ACI roadmap with definitions, open problems, and evaluation milestones.

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A follow-up workshop program for deep technical discussion, pilot design, and publishable research synthesis.

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A working network for future salons, workshops, pilots, and publications.

Continue the research series

Follow-up working workshops will develop the ACI agenda into definitions, benchmarks, governance protocols, and pilot collaborations.

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