Technical Notes on Video:

Video length is 2:00:40.

David Thorburn, Director, Communications Forum, introduces the session and Thomas Malone, Alex (Sandy Pentland), and Karim Lakhani. (NB: The video starts with Thorburn in progress.) He asks Malone to start with an overview of the subject of collective intelligence.

At 5:09, Malone begins. (NB: Malone’s audio is low until 6:30.)

At 13:04, Pentland begins.

At 25:07, Karim R. Lakhani begins.

At 35:24, Malone describes projects at the Center for Collective Intelligence.

At 42:03, Thorburn admits to skepticism in reaction to the “utopian discourse” surrounding collective intelligence and asks panelists to ponder limitations to the “collective intelligence tendency.”

At 52:21, Thorburn asks a question that’s “half intellectually unfriendly.” He wonders, “Is the best we can hope for from collective intelligence that we can sell more T-shirts in creative ways? What about applications in realms of culture and human behavior that do not involve profit and loss?”

At 53:30, Malone responds.

At 1:01:11, Thorburn opens the session to audience Q&A.

Questions include: Pentland’s “sociometric badge” and how it impacts interactions; how to train people to do collective work; the connection between chaos and collective intelligence; how to prevent mass stupidity, and concerns about the evolution of a surveillance culture; the need for face to face contact in communities to develop trust; the role of motivation in projects of collective intelligence; the impact of collective intelligence on individual intelligence; how to prevent people from gaming the system; can a group have an artistic vision or is that the property of a single artist.