Collective intelligence of the artificial life community on its own successes, failures, and future

  • Authors:

  • Steen Rasmussen;Michael J. Raven;Gordon N. Keating;Mark A. Bedau

  • Affiliations:

  • Self-Organizing Processes EES-6, MS-T003, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Santa Fe Institute 1399, Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM;Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR and Self-Organizing Processes, EES-6, MS-T003, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM;GISLab, EES-9, MS-D452, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM;Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Life
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We describe a novel Internet-based method for building consensus and clarifying conflicts in large stakeholder groups facing complex issues, and we use the method to survey and map the scientific and organizational perspectives of the artificial life community during the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life (summer 2000). The issues addressed in this survey included artificial life's main successes, main failures, main open scientific questions, and main strategies for the future, as well as the benefits and pitfalls of creating a professional society for artificial life. By illuminating the artificial life community's collective perspective on these issues, this survey illustrates the value of such methods of harnessing the collective intelligence of large stakeholder groups.