Swarm intelligence begins now or never [Social Sciences]

In vivid detail, Bak-Coleman et al. (1) describe explosively multiplicative global pathologies of scale posing existential risk to humanity. They argue that the study of collective behavior in the age of digital social media must rise to a “crisis discipline” dedicated to averting global ruin through the adaptive manipulation of...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - October 15, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Kang Hao Cheong, Michael C. Jones Tags: Letters, Letters and Replies, Sustainability Science Source Type: research