Steering Transformative AI Towards Better Outcomes

Increasingly capable AI systems are becoming pervasive intermediaries, operating on population-scale economic decisions, political information, public services, and personal advice. This risks:

• Power concentration

• Loss of democratic freedom

• The erosion of pluralism

In the absence of alternate approaches, private defaults become global rules. Oversight exists in principle, but usable leverage remains limited.

Frontier AI systems are advancing faster than our ability to govern them. The Collective Intelligence Project (CIP) exists to close this gap.

Our Approach

At CIP, we build democratic infrastructure for AI. We embed global public input into the development and evaluation of frontier AI by combining:

1. Deliberative methods

2. Large-scale human evaluation

3. Institutional partnerships

Our goal is to achieve alignment in a way no lab, regulator, or civil society organization can do alone.