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Leading Edge Webinar: Digital Health and Wellness
If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent animals on our planet. But there's another kind of entity that can be far smarter: groups of people. In this talk, Thomas Malone shows how groups of people working together in superminds -- like hierarchies, markets, democracies, and communities -- have been responsible for almost all human achievements in business, government, science, and beyond. Malone also shows how computers can help create more intelligent superminds simply by connecting humans to one another in a variety of ways. Artificially intelligent computers will also amplify the power of these superminds by doing increasingly complex kinds of thinking. By understanding how these collectively intelligent groups work, we can learn how to harness their genius to achieve our human goals.