Collective Intelligence+AI: Designing Interfaces for Human Coordination
This is a hybrid (online + in-person) workshop as part of Human + Tech Week as well as the ongoing "Breaking Out of Silos" design challenge series.
What if collective intelligence emerges not from smarter AI, but from better-designed interfaces that shape how humans coordinate, decide, and govern together?
As AI increasingly mediates attention, meaning, and decision-making, the weakest link is not intelligence but coordination. Fragmented realities, invisible AI influence, and weak consent and accountability at the interface level erode shared understanding and trust.
In response, may we treat collective intelligence as a design problem. Focusing on the interface layer where humans and AI interact, this work uses meta-layer coordination primitives that make AI participation visible, align actions with human intent, and support shared sensemaking. This session brings that approach into practice through a participatory design process, guiding attendees to apply these principles to real-world systems in media, education, and civic infrastructure.
Join Daveed – vice chair of the SF Bay Chapter of the Internet Society and builder of the first meta-layer application, Canopi – as he convenes designers, technologists, and civic builders exploring interface-level design as a foundation for collective intelligence in AI-shaped systems. Sheila Hassell Hughes of Human Energy will introduce their work on the Noosphere.
Light lunch will be provided (in-person).
This is both an online and in-person event. The ZOOM link will be sent out before the event.
This is event is co-sponsored by the Meta-Layer Initiative, the Meta-Layer working group of the Internet Society SF Bay chapter, the Nevada ISOC chapter, the PCI AI Noosphere action team, and Human Energy. For context, see https://themetalayer.org.
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