Collective Intelligence Masterclass
How can we tap into a group's collective intelligence and guide a community into optimal decision-making? Group decision making can benefit from collective intelligence. By bringing a group of people together to make a decision, we observe scenarios in which a group can outperform any individual in the group. These groups will know more than any of its individuals. However not every group or community works well together in harmony, which can block the group's access to valuable insights and obstruct the extraction of collective wisdom.
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For whom?
This masterclass is directed to anyone in a leadership role who is eager to learn about the factors that can either hamper or facilitate a group’s ability to access its collective intelligence.
Contact
For any questions, please reach out to Diederik Slob, Business Development Manager at UvA Academy, at +31 (0) 6 13034759 or email d.j.h.slob@uva.nl.
Content masterclass
In this masterclass we analyse different forms of group knowledge. We pay attention to the role of individual beliefs and of belief-aggregation procedures in facilitating or distorting the spread of information through a network of interacting agents. We consider various forms of communication, social influence and informational actions that can affect a group's behavior and its ability to track the truth. We focus on concrete case studies and use examples from the literature, providing an analysis based on the use of insights coming from logic and formal philosophy.
What will you learn?
We focus in particular on a range of social phenomena that can play a role in decision making processes such as the formation of informational cascades, pluralistic ignorance, polarization, the anchoring effect etc. By analyzing social scenarios through the lens of logic and philosophy, we can highlight the information-theoretic principles that play a central role. We zoom-in on the different mechanisms of belief revision, the effect of public versus private communication as well as the role of the order of the speakers. We answer questions such as whether rational agents involved in a sequential decision making process, who use their higher-order reasoning powers, can ultimately stop an informational cascade from happening.
Lecturer: Sonja Smets
Sonja Smets is a professor in Logic and Epistemology, holding a professorship in both the faculty of Science and in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. She plays an important role in the international scientific community as board member of different societies, she is the former director of the institute for logic, language and computation, the elected president of the International Quantum Structures Association and a member of the Dutch Royal Society. Structures Association, and membership in the Dutch Royal Society.
Programme
Day 1
- Introduction to the topic of collective intelligence.
- Learning about the different factors that can hamper or facilitate a group’s ability to access its collective wisdom.
- Discussion of concrete case-studies.
- Logic-philosophical analysis of the case-studies.
Day 2
- Learning about processes of collective opinion formation, social influence and the role of public and private communication in decision making.
- Discussion of concrete case-studies.
- Logic-philosophical analysis of the case-studies.
- Overview of learning outcomes.