The Collective Intelligence Project (CIP) is a nonprofit research and development organization that builds tools, processes, and institutions for collective decision-making to govern transformative technologies, particularly AI. Founded in 2022 by Divya Siddarth and Saffron Huang, CIP runs large-scale public deliberation programs like Global Dialogues, develops community-driven AI evaluation platforms like Weval, and partners with AI labs, governments, and civil society to embed diverse public perspectives into AI development and policy. CIP has partnered with organizations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral AI, Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs, and the UK AI Safety Institute.
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- RadicalxChange Foundation (historical; CIP achieved its own 501(c)(3) status in 2024)
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CIP identifies a Transformative Technology Trilemma in which existing governance approaches force trade-offs between technological progress, safety, and democratic participation. Their theory of change is that by developing and deploying collective intelligence tools -- scalable processes for surfacing, aggregating, and acting on diverse public values -- they can create a fourth path that integrates all three priorities. Concretely, CIP builds platforms for large-scale public deliberation (Global Dialogues), community-driven AI evaluation (Weval), and participatory model alignment (Community Models), then partners with AI labs and governments to embed the resulting insights into actual development and policy decisions. This creates a feedback loop where public input directly influences how AI systems are built, evaluated, and governed, reducing the risk that transformative AI is developed without adequate democratic accountability or diverse safety considerations.
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from Survival and Flourishing Fund
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
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- Apr 2, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC
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- Mar 18, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC