The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence explores how people and computers can be connected so that
—collectively—
they act more intelligently than any person, group, or computer has ever done before.

The surprising power of warmth in AI negotiations

When AI negotiators exhibits human traits like warmth, they reach better outcomes. Aggressive AI agents can at times secure stronger terms, but they can also often lead to impasses.

Humans and AI: Do they work better together or alone?

Human-AI combinations often perform worse in decision-making than the best of humans or AI alone. But AI-human collaboration shows great promise for creative work.

How “Learnwrights” could compensate creators when AI models use their content

“Learnright” laws would give copyright holders the right to license their content and claim a share in generative AI systems’ revenues.

Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

From the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating new book about the intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working together.

SUPERMIND DESIGN

Our world is filled with complex systems of people and machines that we humans have designed: from companies and governments to economies and societies. And as technologies and human desires change, the configurations of these systems often need to change, too. Supermind Design is an approach that emphasizes generating innovative new possibilities for how to configure these systems.

Collective Intelligence Design Lab

MIT’s Collective Intelligence Design Lab (CIDL) helps groups design innovative new kinds of collectively intelligent systems (superminds) to solve important problems.

DesignAID: A generative AI tool to inspire creative workers

CCI researchers, working with the Toyota Research Institute, built a tool that helps designers by using generative AI to quickly create images based on text prompts.