Public Intelligence

The aim of public intelligence is to make AI a global commons, a public good for maximum people. Political will to make this happen is crucial, but equally essential are the technical means, the brilliant innovations needed that we don’t have yet, and are not obvious. To urge those innovations along, it is helpful to have an image to inspire us.

The image is this: A Public Intelligence owned by everyone, composed of billions of local AIs, needing no permission to join and use, powered and paid for by users, trained on all the books and texts of humankind, operating at the scale of the planet, and maintained by common agreement.