When a crowd gets something right, like guessing how many beans are in a jar, forecasting an election, or solving a difficult ...

Claims that artificial intelligence (AI) is on the verge of surpassing human intelligence have become commonplace. According to some commentators, rapid advances in large language models signal an ...

Animal groups show how simple actions create shared intelligence, shaping technology, health research, and crowd safety.

This is the first post in a series on how collective intelligence can make the world a better place. Read the whole collection here. When it comes to climate change, there’s a lot of room for feeling ...

Researchers document the existence of collective intelligence among groups of people who cooperate well, showing that such intelligence extends beyond the cognitive abilities of the groups' individual ...

Collective intelligence, a concept at the heart of the learning organization, is based on a group's ability to effectively combine the talents, skills and energies of its members to achieve a common ...

Swarm intelligence is a natural step in the evolution of certain social species. It explains why ants colonize, bees swarm, fish school and birds flock. Nature has proven that when individual ...

Collective intelligence is on the rise—and it is, in fact, much more effective than our individual brains. That’s the main argument that neuroscientist and bestselling author Hannah Critchlow presents ...

When it comes to the history of science, social scientists are often viewed by worldly, grey-bearded physicists as the new kids on the block – or, at best, a bunch of rowdy adolescents still trying to ...

The original purpose of the internet has been lost. When the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched the first online network in the late 1960s, it set the stage for a technological ...