Recent years have seen astonishing advances in our understanding of cellular and basal intelligence, animal language and cognition, and augmented and artificial intelligences. What are we learning at the frontiers of scientific research about the dazzling profusion of forms intelligence might take? What might be held in common, and how might we understand the humanity of human intelligence, amid the ferment of intelligence all around us?

From bee colony collaboration to bird murmuration to forest communication systems, from social networks to prediction markets to digital democratic ecosystems, collectives can show emergent capacities and properties that go beyond what individuals possess. How is intelligence shared, distributed, and amplified across pluralities? What conditions lead to healthy function, and dysfunction, across collective brains? What does collective intelligence look like not only among a single kind of intelligence, but across different types and species?

Some believe artificial superintelligence will accelerate our progress, eliminate disease, and unleash abundance and creativity. Others believe it will sentence humankind to conflict, irrelevance, and extinction. Still others look to brain-machine interfaces and genetic manipulation to extend the powers of our own cognition. Whether you believe we should hit the accelerator or decelerator, whose hand should be on the wheel? How do we design a future of flourishing and wisdom for augmented, enhanced, and shared intelligence?