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AI and Collective Intelligence

Panel discussion: « AI and Collective Intelligence : the future of thinking together »

Thursday, 25 June 2026, at 17:30-18:30 CET on Zoom

It is undeniable that artificial intelligence is transforming the way humans collaborate, make decisions, and solve complex problems. In an AI-driven world, AI systems can instantly generate and synthesise information on any topic. In this context, does it still make sense for human beings to come together and combine their expertise and knowledge to reach effective conclusions and outcomes? To what extent does AI influence human collective intelligence?

This topic raises important questions about boundaries, trust, ethics, performance, governance, and the future of human thought and judgment. All this was discussed by our three panellists: Catherine Mauvais Aung, Gianpaolo Turri and Cristina Bianchi, moderated by Maureen Steele during the 25 June panel discussion. Rather than focusing on AI replacing human thinking, the panellists examined how, under the right conditions, AI can be combined with human strengths to create new forms of shared knowledge, collaboration, and innovation.

Panellists

Catherine Mauvais Aung

Catherine Mauvais Aung is an executive with 25 years of leadership experience across healthcare, pharmaceuticals and industry. A former Group General Manager Digital Health Transformation at Mediclinic and Head of Innovation at Ferring Pharmaceuticals, she now advises leaders on turning AI and digital ambition into governed execution and measurable business outcomes through DAIMPRO™, her proprietary methodology for technology-enabled transformation. She teaches AI and leadership at the CLAFG Leadership Academy and is a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council.

Gianpaolo Turri

Gianpaolo Turri, Ph.D., is Co-Founder and Operating Partner of SHRARE, a Swiss venture applying agentic AI to rare-disease therapeutics. A physicist by training and former CEO of the Infranor and Adamant-Namiki Groups, he has spent twenty-five years convinced that business, like all human endeavour, is a force that can build a better humanity, not a zero-sum game. An EMCC accredited executive coach, he believes the future of thinking together is the meeting of IQ and EQ, of artificial intelligence and courageous human love.

Cristina Bianchi

Cristina Bianchi is the Managing Director of Enhance Training and Development and co-author of The Collective Intelligence Catalyst. An expert in collective intelligence, she is an inspiring trainer, accomplished public speaker, facilitator, and coach. She designs and facilitates learning environments where people collaborate constructively, share knowledge openly, and co-create solutions driven by a common purpose. She supports individuals and teams in becoming Collective Intelligence Catalysts. Her clients range from start-ups to multinational corporations across a wide variety of sectors.

Catherine Mauvais Aung

Gianpaolo Turri

Cristina Bianchi

Discover their articles

If AI Makes Each of Us Omniscient, Are We Meant to Work Alone?

By Catherine Mauvais Aung, Author of the DAIMPRO Methodology, 30 June 2026

When Gutenberg set up his workshop around 1450, his contemporaries predicted the death of the scribe. Why copy by hand what a press could now reproduce? Five centuries later, humanity has never written, read, edited, translated, or published more. The technology that seemed to threaten the work of the mind did not abolish it. It displaced it. And it made it more demanding.

Something similar may be happening to collective intelligence today…

AI and Collective Intelligence: Amplifier or Disruptor?

By Gianpaolo Turri, Operating Partner, SHRARE, 30 June 2026

As I work at the intersection of AI, healthcare, and rare disease, I keep returning to one question: does artificial intelligence make us smarter together, or does it quietly erode the human conditions that make collective intelligence possible in the first place?

This is not an abstract question for me. It sits at the heart of what we are building at SHRARE, and more broadly at the heart of how I think about leadership, business, and innovation.

Recently, I read the book The Collective Intelligence Catalyst by Cristina Bianchi and Maureen Steele, and one idea stayed with me…

As AI Does More and More for Me, Am I Losing My Cognitive Skills?

By Cristina Bianchi, Co-author of ‘The Collective Intelligence Catalyst, 30 June 2026

When the first navigation systems were introduced into our cars in the early 1990s, I remember reacting with a mixture of scepticism and relief. I was sceptical because, at the time, I wasn’t yet convinced that this new technology could truly prevent me from ending up in the wrong place. Yet I also felt relieved, because part of me hoped that, at last, I might finally stop ending up in the wrong place!

More than thirty years later, I rarely get lost while driving.

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