Negotiating AI as a Community (NAIC)
AI is not something to worship or fear.
It is a tool.
Negotiating AI as a Community (NAIC) approaches AI as a means — something to be used skillfully for our shared wellbeing — not as an end in itself to be chased out of hype or fear of missing out.
Our mission is simple:
To use AI as an organisational tool that increases the competence, coherence and productive capacity of community and community groups.
To use AI as a dialogical tool that strengthens our ability to think clearly as individuals — and to think well together as communities.
NAIC is not about replacing people with machines. It is about asserting the value of people in the age of the machine.
The NAIC project bagan with a workshop series subtitled “Building a Borough Brain.” But the “brain” is not a computer.
The brain is us in dialogue as a community augumented by AI tools.
We are aiming for something I call Augmented Community Intelligence (ACI) — a community that uses AI thoughtfully to enhance collaboration, learning, and collective decision-making.
NAIC is community building in the age of AI.