Chatbots offer guidance for ASI (Artificial Super-Intelligence Part 4)
Seeking to exemplify the kind of partnership and co-intelligence I imagine might be positive between humans and artificial super-intelligences (ASIs), I decided …
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of my best essay on emergent group process
My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $2282 from 23 people. If you find my work meaningful, please send me …
Helping Co-Intelligence Work for the World
Helping Co-Intelligence Work for the World We are workingto empowerinspireconnectagents of changeon behalf of life(both human lifeand more-than-human life)in our current andfuture …
What is the practice of co-intelligence? Part 6 – The inclusiveness challenge
This is the last of six posts seeking to describe what it means to practice co-intelligence. The full series is here: 1) …
The prospect of wise public policy (AI – A Partner in Wise Democracy? #7)
I had a conversation with Claude, one of my AI colleagues, which I share here. Starting with a prompt about wise public …
How I stumbled into the visionary beauty of citizen consensus councils
I’ve stumbled on a 23-year-old video where I tell the story of how a vision I loved – about what citizen consensus …
Realism and Possibility
Realism can mean working within existing constraints – or successfully addressing the real issues we face. Unfortunately, trying to be realistic in …
Large-scale collective sense-making processes (Sense-making – Part 5)
I’ve long advocated the use of multiple processes in public and stakeholder engagements so that synergies among them can be tapped. Recently …
Active Appreciation: A strategy for evolutionary change agents
Appreciation is usually thought of in relatively passive, personal terms, as in “art appreciation”. But I’m beginning to think of it in …
Pandemic Poetry
It seems that this pandemic has inspired some remarkable poetry. These seven poems have crossed my desk in the last two weeks. …