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Published on: August 25, 2023
Collective intelligence of the artificial life community on its own successes, failures, and future
Steen Rasmussen1, Michael J Raven, Gordon N Keating
1Self-Organizing Processes, EES-6, MS-T003, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. steen@lanl.gov
Abstract:
We describe a novel Internet-based method for building consensus and clarifying conflicts in large stakeholder groups facing complex issues, and we use the method to survey and map the scientific and organizational perspectives of the artificial life community during the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life (summer 2000). The issues addressed in this survey included artificial life's main successes, main failures, main open scientific questions, and main strategies for the future, as well as the benefits and pitfalls of creating a professional society for artificial life. By illuminating the artificial life community's collective perspective on these issues, this survey illustrates the value of such methods of harnessing the collective intelligence of large stakeholder groups.
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