A new graduate programme in AI and Collective Intelligence

[Niccolò Pescetelli]

Dear collective intelligence family,

The London Interdisciplinary School just launched a new Master of Arts & Sciences (MASc) in AI & Collective Intelligence, starting in Sept 2026.

It is a full-time, campus-first programme based in London. The programme's goal is to train the next generation of practitioners to design, evaluate, and lead hybrid systems in which human and artificial intelligence work together to tackle complex real-world problems.

The programme brings together foundations in machine learning, research on collective intelligence and group decision-making, and hands-on work designing real-world hybrid systems. Students will learn how AI works, how it reshapes organisations, coordination, and decision-making, and how to design better human-machine systems.

As a programme lead, I'd be very grateful if you could:

• Share this with anyone who might be interested in applying
• Get in touch if you (or someone you know) would like to be involved in teaching, partnering with, or contributing to the programme. We’re looking for academics, practitioners, and people working across domains where AI and collective intelligence meet.

More information (including curriculum and application details): https://www.lis.ac.uk/ai

Thank you so much!

Niccolo Pescetelli

Associate Professor, The London Interdisciplinary School

Director and Chief Scientist, People Supported Technologies

https://www.linkedin.com/in/niccolo-pescetelli/

[Joshua Becker]

That's so cool!

I spy an opportunity for some geographical promotion, so here are some more reasons to send your students to London to study collective intelligence at the masters or phd level!

London is...

• Home to Nesta's Center for Collective Intelligence 
• Home to a fairly large cluster of collective intelligence researchers including Niccolo as well as Geoff Mulgan, myself, and others
• Major hub for AI research and practice including Alan Turing Institute, Ada Lovelace Institute, Deepmind
• Second home to the Collective Intelligence Project (now primarily based on SF)
• Home to Newspeak House, an community of communities dedicated to advancing political technology, with regular hack nights on a range of topics.  If you want to work with policymakers and tech geeks focused on governance and decisionmaking.. you'll find them here.
• Home to psi.tech a very cool collective intelligence app
• Deep civic policy and collective intelligence ecosystem with a number of groups dedicated to participatory democracy, and a government that has historically been very open to experimenting with collective intelligence (e.g. the govt's Policy Lab)
• A train ride away from the Oxford/Cambridge research and tech clusters.
• An incredible, vibrant, and growth-oriented place to be with mild year-round weather and the best public transit system in the anglosphere

And those are just off the top of my head.   Please feel free to share my contact info with anybody who is interested in learning more.

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Joshua Becker

Associate Professor

UCL School of Management

University College London

www.joshua-becker.com  

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