Common Good AI is a new non-profit organization that leverages human abilities to innovate and find solutions by integrating AI to empower groups of any size to collaboratively ideate, debate diverse ideas, identify shared goals, and find a path forward together.

Common Good AI was founded by Tom Kehler and Kim Polese, co-founders of CrowdSmart.AI, after a meeting at MIT Media Lab orchestrated by John Clippinger in March 2023. In that meeting, they concluded that AI needed to be focused on something far more significant than pre-trained transformer models. They saw the need to create a focus on AI that aids in finding common ground for the common good. They formed a non-profit organization that could use this new model of AI technology to address issues related to social impact, healthcare, education, the development of stronger cities, and deliberative democracy. The organization that resulted was Common Good AI. We focus on using deliberative tech tools to help nonprofit organizations and citizen groups focused on deliberative democratic engagement to solve community-level problems. So far we’ve conducted initial pilot cases indicate the CrowdSmart technology can effectively engage and find points of consensus and generate action planning; further application is underway. Organizations looking to pilot the AI technology can contact us at [email protected].  If there are existing or developing technology tools that want to collaborate, we are open to explore.