Ep12 - Querying the Collective Mind - CrowdSmart Co-Founder Kim Polese on Collective Intelligence

How can AI summon the wisdom of the crowd without the stupidity of the mob? In Episode 12 of My Robot Teacher, Sarah Senk and Taiyo Inoue talk with Kim Polese—co-founder of CrowdSmartAI and Common Good AI—about collective intelligence, deliberative tech, and a different vision of AI: not as a machine for generating answers, but as a facilitator that helps groups think better together. From enterprise strategy and citizen assemblies to seminar pedagogy, the conversation explores what happens when AI stops generating answers and becomes a facilitator for collective intelligence: surfacing tacit knowledge, preserving quieter voices, and helping institutions process forms of disagreement that usually disappear into noise.My Robot Teacher is hosted by Sarah Senk and Taiyo Inoue, sponsored by the California Education Learning Lab, and produced by editaudio.📄 Full transcripts available on Substack: https://calearninglab.org/myrobotteacher/ 🌐 More about the show: https://www.myrobotteacher.ai 📨 Email us! [email protected] 🔔 Subscribe for Extras: https://www.youtube.com/@myrobotteacher