FID-064
Collective Intelligence and Communal Discernment Under AI Mediation
How does AI mediation change a community's ability to integrate dispersed knowledge, preserve epistemic diversity, surface dissent, revise judgment, and make accountable decisions? Under what conditions does it strengthen collective inquiry, and under what conditions does it create correlated error, false consensus, or concentrated authority?
Why this matters
The question behind the brief.
AI can summarize documents, recommend options, and coordinate discussion at a scale that may help groups reason together. The same systems can make one model, one prompt pattern, or one institutional default disproportionately influential. Faith communities make consequential judgments through practices that include testimony, deliberation, dissent, counsel, and accountable authority. Those practices should not be reduced to the production of fast agreement.
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