Manifesto

AI in Tune with Humanity

A New Paradigm for Human-AI Collaboration

In 1960, J.C.R. Licklider envisioned “a close coupling between human and computer” — a partnership of true symbiosis where each amplifies the other’s strengths to create a collective intelligence greater than either of them alone.

More than sixty years later, the major AI corporations are steering us in a different direction — pursuing a single, centralized superintelligence.

Geoffrey Hinton, one of AI’s founding figures, warns of the short-sightedness of this approach:

“They have been focusing on making these things more intelligent. But intelligence is just one part of a being. We need to make them have empathy towards us.”

Polyworld takes a different path. Where others center computing power, we center human resonance. Where others pursue scale, we pursue alignment. Where others simulate empathy, we cultivate genuine symbiosis.

Fei-Fei Li, co-founder of Stanford University’s Human-Centered AI Institute, sees AI as a “civilizational technology.” Her framework for human-centered AI outlines three concentric circles — the individual, the community, and society.

Polyworld places humans at the centre of each of these circles — in an ecosystem where:

• Individuals partner with AI companions, creating a unique Polymind — a seamless coupling of human qualities (ethos, memory, intention, and meaning) with AI’s immense computing power.

• Groups collaborate, work, and trade in a secure blockchain environment — decentralized, democratized, and immutable.

• Global minds interact in a world driven not by division and disinformation, but by coherence, consensus, and alignment.

Polyworld’s design reimagines the relationship between humanity and AI. It is not just a declaration of architectural intent — it explicitly rejects the paradigm of a top-down imposition of superintelligence.

Our vision is for human intelligence to evolve not through centralization, but through a distributed, global neural network of millions of human–AI Polyminds.

It is a vision of intelligence that, in Licklider’s words, will

“think as no human brain has ever thought” — a symbiotic partnership of mind and machine from which new ideas and solutions can emerge, astonishing us with their originality and creativity.

It offers an escape from Einstein’s conundrum:

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

In short, Polyworld represents no less than a potential leap forward in the evolution of human intelligence.

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