State of the Field: AI for Epistemics and Coordination by Ben_N

1. Ex­ec­u­tive Summary1.1 What this field is and why it mattersAI is already sub­stan­tially chang­ing how peo­ple and in­sti­tu­tions work out what to be­lieve, de­cide what to do, and co­or­di­nate on ac­tions to take. As AI sys­tems be­come in­creas­ingly ca­pa­ble, they will be in­te­grated more and more in both ma­jor and day-to-day de­ci­sions.The up­side of in­volv­ing AI sys­tems in these pro­cesses could be enor­mous. AI tools for epistemics and co­or­di­na­tion could make it eas­ier t...