Second event · Continuation Salon · Concluded · Boston Tech Week · May 26, 2026
A completed continuation salon on shared cognitive infrastructure.
The second event in the Superintelligence for Humanity series has now concluded. This intimate Boston Tech Week gathering continued the conversation opened by the May 18-19 summit and prepared the next phase of work: deeper technical discussions and working workshops on Artificial Collective Intelligence as the cognitive infrastructure through which humans, agents, and institutions can reason, coordinate, preserve provenance, respect consent, and learn together.
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA
Fireside chat
A dedicated fireside conversation on inclusive AI infrastructure, cultural fluency, agency, and the institutional conditions for building systems in service of humanity.
Fireside chat speaker
Latimer.ai
Board Director | Partner | VentureBeat Generative AI Visionary Award
John builds inclusive AI infrastructure through LatimerAI, advancing culturally fluent language models for education, healthcare, and public-interest use.
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Speakers from the completed continuation salon.
Design and product strategy
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Brian brings a product-design lens to how advanced systems become understandable, usable, and agency-preserving for people and institutions.
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Solv Labs
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Patrick builds verifiable-AI infrastructure for regulated insurance and reinsurance capital, with deep experience in logistics innovation and standards.
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Boston Blockchain Association
Panel speaker
Sam works across blockchain, linked data, digital identity, privacy, and systems governance, translating deep technical systems into institutional language.
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Harvard / Cognisee PBC
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Ujjwal bridges Harvard, Cognisee PBC, Quantum Alliance, and civic innovation networks to turn ACI research into partnerships and pilots.
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The first event, the Superintelligence for Humanity summit, brought together researchers, builders, and institutional partners around a shared question: what comes after monolithic AI scaling? The continuation salon advanced that conversation into a working agenda - definitions, benchmarks, pilot collaborations, follow-up workshops, and a research community for Artificial Collective Intelligence.
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Follow-up
Superintelligence for Humanity will continue through deeper technical discussions and working workshops. The goal is to prepare for ACI as governed cognitive infrastructure: plural, auditable, consent-aware systems that preserve human and institutional agency while enabling human-AI collectives to reason and learn.
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The series will continue with small, research-intensive sessions that examine ACI as a distributed socio-technical learning problem, not simply as larger models or more agents.
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Follow-up workshops will focus on definitions, architecture sketches, benchmark proposals, governance primitives, and pilot designs that can be criticized, refined, and tested.
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The goal is to prepare for ACI as governed cognitive infrastructure: systems that preserve local authority, attribution, uncertainty, disagreement, consent, and institutional memory.
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The next phase will connect artificial life, social choice, distributed systems, agentic AI, embodied intelligence, and human institutional practice into a coherent research agenda.
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What Artificial Collective Intelligence should mean as a research field
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How shared cognitive infrastructure can support human agency and institutional learning
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How tacit expertise, provenance, consent, and revocability can become design primitives
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What benchmarks and pilot projects could make ACI concrete
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Which research tools - artificial life, active inference, context graphs, embodied AI, and multi-agent coordination - can make ACI operational
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How follow-up workshops can turn deep discussion into testable ACI architectures, protocols, and collaborations
The discussion treated ACI as a practical design problem: what concepts, methods, and technical primitives can help humans, agents, and institutions coordinate with accountability, local authority, and persistent memory?
Open-endedness, emergence, and agent ecologies as ways to study intelligence as a living, evolving system rather than a single model artifact.
Perception-action loops, uncertainty reduction, and agency-preserving coordination for adaptive systems that learn with people and institutions.
Structured shared memory for provenance, semantic relationships, decision traces, permissions, and institutional continuity.
Robotics, sensorimotor learning, tacit skill capture, and the physical grounding of cognition in real environments.
Generative models, causal sandboxes, and scenario testing for evaluating collective action before it is deployed in the world.
Protocols for delegation, negotiation, verification, disagreement, conflict resolution, and shared goals across human and machine participants.
Mechanisms for authorship, revocability, accountable abstraction exchange, and governed use of collectively held expertise.
Evaluation methods that measure shared context, institutional learning, human agency, and cooperative performance rather than model scale alone.
A small, dialogue-based salon designed for serious exchange rather than formal presentations. The session prioritized short framing remarks, open discussion, and concrete next steps toward an ACI roadmap, joint paper, and follow-up working workshops.
Date
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Time
3:00-6:00 PM ET
Series
Second event in the Superintelligence for Humanity series
Location
Harvard University, Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center, 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Context
Boston Tech Week
Access
Closed
Hosted by
Cognisee, Quantum Alliance, and Advanced AI Society
Event closed
Registration is now closed. Video, notes, selected materials, and follow-up workshop information will be published here soon.
This gathering brought together people thinking deeply about the future of AI and human agency: researchers, founders, investors, technologists, civic leaders, and institutional builders interested in moving beyond today's model-scaling race toward systems that serve human and collective flourishing.
Building Superintelligence for Humanity
Tuesday, May 26, 2026 · 3:00-6:00 PM ET · Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center · follow-up workshops forthcoming
Event closed
Registration is now closed. Video, notes, selected materials, and follow-up workshop information will be published here soon.
