Collective Intelligence Project

The Collective Intelligence Project (CIP) is a nonprofit R&D organization founded in August 2022 by Divya Siddarth and Saffron Huang, with Jasmine Wang as a third co-founder. The organization publicly launched with a whitepaper in February 2023 that outlined its vision for new governance models for transformative technology. CIP is headquartered in San Francisco, having opened its first office in Japantown in 2024. CIP's central thesis is that existing governance approaches for transformative technologies force trade-offs between progress, safety, and democratic participation, what they call the Transformative Technology Trilemma. CIP works to develop a fourth path through collective intelligence capabilities that integrate all three priorities. The organization operates several flagship programs. Global Dialogues is a platform for structured deliberation that brings diverse global voices into AI development decisions. In 2025, CIP conducted seven rounds of Global Dialogues engaging over 10,000 participants across more than 70 countries. Weval is an open platform enabling communities to create qualitative benchmarks and evaluations for AI systems. Community Models allows communities to create and refine AI models based on collectively defined constitutions. Samiksha, launched in partnership with Karya and Microsoft Research, generates evaluations of AI systems across Indian languages and domains. CIP has partnered with major AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral AI, as well as governments in Taiwan, Bhutan, and Montenegro on national AI strategies. The organization ran alignment assemblies in 2023-2024 alongside committed partners to incorporate public voice into AI decision-making. CIP's co-founders Saffron Huang and Divya Siddarth were named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2024. The organization is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 92-0327339) that operates exclusively through philanthropic charitable donations. CIP's funders include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Google.org, Ford Foundation, Omidyar Network, One Project, Future of Life Institute, Amaranth Foundation, and the Survival and Flourishing Fund. Before achieving its own 501(c)(3) status in 2024, CIP was fiscally sponsored by the RadicalxChange Foundation. The team includes notable figures such as Audrey Tang, Taiwan's first Digital Minister (2016-2024), who joined as Senior Research Fellow, and Zarinah Agnew, a neuroscientist who serves as Research Director. CIP is featured in publications including TIME, Wired, Nature, BBC, The New York Times, and Science.