Socially-Minded Intelligence: How Individuals, Groups, and AI Systems Can Make Each-Other Smarter (or Not)

Via Ross Dawson on LinkedIn: "A core part of human intelligence is the ability to work flexibly with others to achieve both individual and collective goals". Unfortunately, intelligence is usually considered as a property of individual or collective, never both, and so "not in a way that can be used to understand how groups can make group members smarter or how group members acting as individuals might make the group itself more intelligent."

Add in AI, which must help both individuals and support the group's collective intelligence.

To unify these questions, this study explores "socially-minded intelligence ... applied to both individuals (in a social context) and collectives ... propose ways in which socially-minded intelligence might be measured and cultivated within people ... [and] modelled in AI systems... [and] improve human-AI teaming".

As a result: "AI agents that can better respond to changes in the social situation", eg agents that can tell "when they should work with a human teammate or work autonomously".

Dawson: "mathematical modelling of social intelligence... could be very useful in helping AI systems self-optimize their social capabilities for collective intelligence."

This points to AIs working autonomously within communities to support them by acting as humanly as possible, constantly self-optimising their "true intelligence ... the ability to know and achieve working with others".