Enabling a hybrid swarm intelligence of humans and ai agents

A hybrid intelligence method for enabling a group of human users and one or more machine agents to converge on an answer to a question during a group collaboration session, the method comprising:

• enabling a plurality of collaboration applications to communicate with a central server, each collaboration application configured to collect input from and display output to a respective human user;
• enabling one or more agent applications to communicate with the central server, each agent application controlling at least one machine agent;
• sending, over a network, a question and a plurality of answer options to each of the collaboration applications and displaying the question and answer options to the respective human users;
• capturing, via the collaboration applications, a user intent from each human user, each user intent indicating a preferred answer option and an associated magnitude;
• generating, using an artificial intelligence process, an agent intent for each of the one or more machine agents, each agent intent indicating a preferred answer option and an associated magnitude;
• receiving, at the central server, the user intents and the agent intents;
• processing the user intents and the agent intents to determine a group response for the group of human users and machine agents;
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• outputting a representation of the group response to the human users via the collaboration applications, the representation indicating a collaboratively selected answer.