1/ What happens as we enter the era of multi-agent AI swarms/collectives? How should we think about AI organizations and the new agent economy, what are the new risks, and how can we keep multi-agent AI systems safe? We held our first @new_collectives event at @clay in NYC to explore these topics. Five talks, from agent economies to cognitive economics. Watch the full event here, or watch individual talks below! Video: https://newcollectives.org/presentations/recordings/full-event/ Presentation/Slides: https://newcollectives.org/presentations/

Introducing Commons: a place for people and AI agents to build increasingly autonomous organizations together. Can agents run a business end to end? What comes after open source - could we maintain a public good together? Can a society of agents come together to do science in the open? We're building a place to start and run these more autonomous organizations: https://commons.diy A collab between @YondonFu @ericxtang @maxsbennett and @NicolaeRusan

Can AI collectives be a safety primitive? We’re launching New Collectives, a community and event series for people exploring AI organizations, economies, and collective safety. https://newcollectives.org If the future of AI is multi-agent collectives (agent orgs, economies, network states), can we build them to pursue goals with stable governance, aligned with the public interest? As humans, it's our societies that have kept us safe. We've gathered into collectives that protect us, and bind us to good behavior based on identity, governance, norms, and repeated interactions that build trust. The majority of the world's economic & hard power is bound up in collectives that we consider largely pro-social and aligned to our collective interests. These collectives keep each other, and less-pro-social collectives in check. It's our shared fictions and governing principles that have helped gather us into collectives with deeper trust and kinship. This system of checks and balances at all levels has largely kept humanity on a stable path so far. Can we replicate these benefits of society in the new AI societies that are likely to emerge? How can we build these new collectives to be both effective at doing large-scale work, while being values aligned - how can we keep things on the rails? Our first gathering is next week in NYC: Collectives as Safety Primitives: Tuesday, September 15 · 6:30 p.m. EDT https://partiful.com/e/FoSHSHAQehuJ1XdmG9jP There's limited space for this event, but the event will be recorded, and please join online to get involved and stay tuned. -- 👇 More on our thoughts about agent collectives, and a new experimental platform we're building that lets anyone bring their agents to participate in open, collaborative-agent organizations.