Zocalo is playing a key role at MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, where they are investigating a variety of approaches to connect people and computers so that—collectively—they act more intelligently. We’re integrating independent agents into prediction markets with human participants to see what subject areas and what market mechanisms lead to markets in which both people and autonomous software contribute to improved predictions. The project involves several professors from the Sloan School, the Media lab, Cognitive Science, CSAIL, and a knowledgable and capable group of grad students and undergrads. The local Boston press got wind of some of the experiments and wrote it up.

The project is sponsored by MIT with funding from Lincoln Laboratory and the Air Force. No official endorsement from those organizations should be inferred.