We see collective intelligence (CI) wherever individuals act collectively to achieve outcomes that no individual could achieve alone. CI underpins the the success of groups, organizations, markets, and societies. But CI is fragile and only emerges when certain elements align.

LLMs might have an important role to play in promoting CI. It even could be argued that LLMs are new kind of CI itself. Yet, LLMs also seem to be leading us towards a more opaque, proprietary, and enclosed information environment, which could undermine much of the CI we know and rely on today.