Digital futures may not be sustainable in the face of unpredictable and potentially catastrophic events stemming from the polycrisis. In such circumstances, the resilience required demands anti-fragile systems that aim not only to withstand shocks and disruptions but also to learn and improve from them.
To achieve anti-fragility, the complexity of planetary systems must be visible to both their components and the whole. No amount of inter- and trans-disciplinary research can absorb such complexity without advanced, generative, and agentic AI systems that do not yet exist.
Our research initially referred to such a system as “wisdom-guided Collaborative Hybrid Intelligence (CHI) of symbiotically linked human and AI agents” in our poster presentation at the Global Flourishing Conference (2023). Since then, we have advanced from concept to prototyping a platform for the collaborative curation of “technology and wisdom”-oriented podcasts into an AI-assisted, biomimetic Knowledge Garden. This platform fosters user-generated hypertrails of thought mycelia’s hyphae into the fruiting body, i.e., patterns capable of inspiring collaborative projects.
Both the prototype, currently named WiserWith, and those projects will be foundational to establishing trajectories and architectures for transcontextual mutual learning across mission-oriented and epistemic communities that CHI can enhance.
We aim to advance the prototype to a Minimum Viable Product stage to facilitate the emergence of planetary superorganisms capable of serving our intentional evolution, transcending and including us as autonomous individuals.
