Our good friend, Hannah, is one of the UK’s top science communicators. Her latest book is a fabulous expose of the latest neuroscience discoveries that support our collective intelligence. It’s a great read and we highly recommend it. It will change the way you think about the groups of which you are a part.
What It’s About: How humans work best collectively - coping with different opinions, biases, and leveraging the diversity of both humans and machines.
Why It Matters: Almost everything we’ve ever done as a species has been collective. Now it’s getting harder, more complex, and more machine-enabled. We need to understand how to bring more diversity, more effectively as we face more complex decisions.
Highlight: A team with more women is more intelligent than any other team. How about that.
Read It If: You want an accessible, comprehensive meta-analysis of the science of collective intelligence, intuition, and analysis written in Hannah’s unique and engaging style.
Helen Edwards is a Co-Founder of Artificiality. She previously co-founded Intelligentsia.ai (acquired by Atlantic Media) and worked at Meridian Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric, Quartz, and Transpower. Contact at helen@artificialityinstitute.org.
It’s curious that these two papers, tackling such similar ideas, came out at the same time. Is this coincidence, or does it tell us something about where the study of life and intelligence is heading?
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