Roadmap
Our path from understanding coordination failures to building self-sustaining infrastructure.
This roadmap shows our path from understanding coordination failures to building self-sustaining infrastructure for testing and designing better coordination mechanisms. Detailed specifications decrease as we move away from the current phase, because we learn as we go. The work is iterative - as we test and deploy, we might discover insights that require revisiting earlier frameworks. We start with foundations to help us establish the right frame of mind. The next phase is to develop core infrastructure to prove the approach works - deep competence in one domain beats shallow coverage across many. The validation and scaling phase pushes for bridging the theory practice gap while building a large dataset of collective intelligence safety. We use this collected data to generate new novel forms of collective intelligence. Each phase provides immediate practical value while building capabilities for the next.
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher who pioneered empirical approaches to understanding human nature, causation, and the foundations of knowledge.
Phase 1: FOUNDATION
Understanding Multi-Scale Coordination
The first phase focuses on exploration: What exactly are these multi-scale collective intelligence problems? How should we even think about them? What frameworks from different fields (economics, political science, complexity science) might help? We focus on exploratory research to find the right frames and map the problem space. This means reading across disciplines, testing different ways of thinking about collective intelligence, identifying which specific problems matter most, and figuring out what questions we're actually trying to answer. Work from this phase focuses on understanding agency across different scales, thinking about creating infrastructure to test how institutional defenses hold up under pressure, and exploring how processes (not just agents) can get misaligned as systems drift away from human values. The scope is to identify core problems and develop good frameworks for thinking about them.
Published Research
