The Collective Intelligence Project

About Us

Here are some of the things we believe set CIP apart:

1. Vision – We have a compelling and tangible vision for what we want the future of technology to look like, articulated in a variety of ways (e.g. WIRED article, our whitepaper, our democratic AI roadmap, Divya’s TED talk, etc).
   1. One core idea: the transformative tech trilemma, and our guiding philosophy that building the future requires not accepting zero-sum tradeoffs between technological progress, collective agency / democracy, and societal safety. 
2. Technically-informed work – Most work in the tech governance space is either narrowly technical or handwavey; we are able to do technically-informed work that still speaks to a broader social and economic project.
3. Network — We’re connected to core people across “scenes” and disciplines, and are able to bridge spaces and make collaboration happen. Lots of people want to work with us and believe in us. 
4. Agility — We’re capable of moving quickly, and shipping imperfect MVPs that can catalyze change at opportune moments (vs. bringing complex products to scale, for example). 
5. Concrete ideas — We’ve made abstract ideas concrete through our partnerships and experiments, taking generically good things like ‘democratizing AI’ and putting them into practice. We hold ourselves accountable to concreteness and impact. 

Perks and Benefits

Health + dental insurance, office in SF, and more