Who is hypermind?

We hold this truth to be self-evident that intelligence is collective; that higher intelligence, be it artificial or cerebral, always consolidates the input of many.

We know that all opinions deserve consideration, that the worst enemy of intelligence isn’t crowds but conformity; that wisdom’s ally isn’t isolation but diversity.

We believe that intelligence in the 21st century will not be artificial only, that a human brain is still the most powerful computer in the world, and that there’s no known limit to what can be achieved by a well-organized multitude of minds.

We call this supercollective intelligence. Since 2000, we are on a mission to empower large organizations, companies, and governments with it.

Because the world won’t get better until we get smarter, together.

In January 2006, CBS features our prediction market in a Sunday Morning show about the wisdom of crowds. 

(Close inspection of the video reveals that the market already features odds about pandemics and Donald Trump.)

In a world premiere, the segment also includes a brief interview of a champion prediction trader.

Mom, we're on TV!

In 2012, the University of Pennsylvania's Philip Tetlock (left, pictured with Emile) asks us to join the IARPA-funded Good Judgment Project to contribute our expertise in prediction markets.

The multi-year project investigated the geopolitical forecasting ability of the general public, and optimal ways to aggregate individual predictions into crowd forecasts.

It will lead to the development prediction polls, an alternative to prediction markets, of which Hypermind's Prescience platform is a powerful instance.

It also proves the existence of a general-purpose forecasting elite, aka Superforecasters, which is the basis of Hypermind's Crowd panel of champion forecasters.

We're inspired!

In 2017, Lumenogic teams with Raytheon BBN and others to compete in a new IARPA research program investigating Hybrid machine-crowd forecasting.

This leads to the development of our Prescience crowd-forecasting platform.

(That's Maurice and Emile at an IARPA meeting in Washington DC.)

We're the future!

In 2018 Lumenogic regroups all its activities under the Hypermind brand.

We're a supercollectif!

In early 2019, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security partners with Hypermind to crowd-forecast infectious disease outbreaks around the world.  Our Prescience platform aggregates the forecasts of hundreds of public health professionals with those of Hypermind champion forecasters.

A year later, at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Johns Hopkins professor Tara Kirk Sell is invited at the Capitol to testify about our project in front of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.

We're awed!

Also in 2019, Hypermind helps found the School of Collective Intelligence at University Mohammed VI Polytechnic in Rabat, Morocco. It is the world's first multidisciplinary graduate program (Masters & PhD) in collective intelligence.

There, Emile teaches a class on crowd forecasting to awesome students from all over Africa.

We're training the leaders of a better world!