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Articulating the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Collective Intelligence: A Transactive Systems Framework

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posted on 2022-12-13, 20:59 authored by Pranav Gupta, Anita WoolleyAnita Woolley
Human society faces increasingly complex problems that require coordinated collective action. Artificial intelligence (AI) holds the potential to bring together the knowledge and associated action needed to find solutions at scale. In order to unleash the potential of human and AI systems, we need to understand the core functions of collective intelligence. To this end, we describe a socio-cognitive architecture that conceptualizes how boundedly rational individuals coordinate their cognitive resources and diverse goals to accomplish joint action. Our transactive systems framework articulates the inter-member processes underlying the emergence of collective memory, attention, and reasoning, which are fundamental to intelligence in any system. Much like the cognitive architectures that have guided the development of artificial intelligence, our transactive systems framework holds the potential to be formalized in computational terms to deepen our understanding of collective intelligence and pinpoint roles that AI can play in enhancing it.

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Gupta, P., & Woolley, A. W. (2021). Articulating the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Collective Intelligence: A Transactive Systems Framework. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 65(1), 670–674.

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2021-09-01