Foundational Principles
Living Systems
Living systems are self-organizing life forms that interact with their environment. These systems are maintained by flows of information, energy and matter. Living systems are driven to push against the Second Law of Thermodynamics—they strive to create order, meaning, understanding—in order to survive in spite of entropic forces.
Collective Human Intelligence
Rather than have AI undermine trust in knowledge, we propose using AI to learn collective knowledge models--causal models that retain provenance, explainability, and context.
Amplifying collective human intelligence through technology. “I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among people of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.”
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1671
Third Wave of Artificial Intelligence
First Wave AI: Handcrafting models of human intelligence.
Second Wave AI: Statistical learning from data.
Third Wave AI: Incorporates humanity and nature.
The guiding principle for AI must be supporting an ecosystem of life globally. Rejecting the concept of a 'transcendent' intelligence, it must be transparent, explainable, co-created with human guidance, and designed in accordance with natural laws.