Issue Calling Out Herd Mentality

Summary

Calling Out Herd Mentality asks whether hybrid intelligence could reduce groupthink. It envisions machine intelligence working with new conceptual models from social psychology to inform how decisions are made. The goal is to lessen the influence of groupthink. The opportunity is linked to the Future Humanity megatrend and draws on human-machine interaction, AI, sensor technologies and edge computing. Its keywords include AI ethics, cognitive diversity, groupthink, multimodal detection and social psychology, with education, finance, cybersecurity and immersive technologies among the sectors most involved.