The first question for collective intelligence maybe,
how can we avoid collective idiocy and break even? Pentland
David Thorburn, Director, Communications Forum, introduces the session and Thomas Malone, Alex (Sandy Pentland), and Karim Lakhani. (NB: The video starts with Thorburn in progress.) He asks Malone to start with an overview of the subject of collective intelligence.
At 5:09, Malone begins. (NB: Malone’s audio is low until 6:30.)
At 13:04, Pentland begins.
At 25:07, Karim R. Lakhani begins.
At 35:24, Malone describes projects at the Center for Collective Intelligence.
At 42:03, Thorburn admits to skepticism in reaction to the “utopian discourse” surrounding collective intelligence and asks panelists to ponder limitations to the “collective intelligence tendency.”
At 52:21, Thorburn asks a question that’s “half intellectually unfriendly.” He wonders, “Is the best we can hope for from collective intelligence that we can sell more T-shirts in creative ways? What about applications in realms of culture and human behavior that do not involve profit and loss?”
At 53:30, Malone responds.
At 1:01:11, Thorburn opens the session to audience Q&A.
Questions include: Pentland’s “sociometric badge” and how it impacts interactions; how to train people to do collective work; the connection between chaos and collective intelligence; how to prevent mass stupidity, and concerns about the evolution of a surveillance culture; the need for face to face contact in communities to develop trust; the role of motivation in projects of collective intelligence; the impact of collective intelligence on individual intelligence; how to prevent people from gaming the system; can a group have an artistic vision or is that the property of a single artist. source