Swarm Creativity Blog

The developers of ChatGPT built extremely useful software, putting a “Wikipedia on steroids” at our fingertips by leveraging collective intelligence in ways never seen before. In this sense, as defined by Plato and Aristotle over two thousand years ago, they are “good people”. This means they are morally good or virtuous by giving away a highly beneficial software product for free that makes many chores of the daily life of knowledge workers much easier. These AI developers are thus acting according to the golden rule (of reciprocity), treating others as they would like to be treated. The problem is that not everybody who writes AI software is a “good” person. If only one percent of AI developers acts entirely egoistic, or even malicious, there is the risk that these “bad apples” will abuse the power of AI for their own sinister purposes, without any consideration for the wellbeing of the rest of us. But what if we could turn the power of AI on these “bad apples”, to identify them be...

Our team at MIT and galaxyadvisors has been creating e-mail and other social media based social networking maps for the last 15 years. The question we have to constantly answer is why it is a good thing to have these social networking maps, which I call “social landscapes”. The way to think about them is like a "Google Map for social landscapes". Google Maps has become immensely useful to me for driving the congested roads in Boston and Zurich. While I have been living in both cities for multiple decades, and usually know my way around, Google Maps has become indispensable for seeing where precisely I am, and where to go next. Through location tracking it shows me where precisely I am. And by aggregating the changes in anonymous location tracking information of thousands of drivers like myself, it shows me where the traffic jams and road construction is, taking me on the fastest way to my destination, and accurately predicting when I will reach my goal. Our social med...