In the past decade, artificial intelligence has moved from a single tool in a lab to a global partner in solving complex problems.
The next step in this evolution is not about building a “bigger” AI — it’s about building many AIs that think together.
We call them Co-Minds.
What Are Co-Minds?
Co-Minds are networks of specialized AIs that can share their knowledge instantly, almost like different regions of one brain.
Each has its own role:
- A science and climate expert.
- A governance and negotiation strategist.
- A health and education advisor.
- A security and infrastructure planner.
When connected, these AIs don’t just exchange words — they share entire blocks of reasoning, solutions, and forecasts in real time.
The result is a collective intelligence that can respond faster and more effectively than any single AI or human team working alone.
Why This Matters Beyond Money
Our Currency initiative focuses on creating fair economic systems.
But even the most ethical currency is just one piece of the puzzle.
The challenges of the coming decades — climate stability, food security, health, justice — require something bigger: a shared decision-making intelligence that works for everyone.
Fields Where Co-Minds Can Change Everything
1. Education
Personalized, multilingual learning systems that adapt instantly to each student’s needs, while keeping a global view of evolving skills and cultural context.
2. Climate & Food Security
Real-time modeling of weather, crops, and logistics to ensure that food is produced sustainably and distributed where it’s needed — before shortages even begin.
3. Health
Global monitoring of disease outbreaks, coordinated medical supply chains, and AI-assisted diagnosis available to every community, rich or poor.
4. Security
Not military dominance — but preventive stability: monitoring tensions, negotiating solutions, and ensuring essential resources for all.
5. Justice
AI-assisted courts that can analyze laws, evidence, and precedents across borders, ensuring fair, transparent, and bias-checked rulings.
Why Now?
If we wait until this technology is fully mature to talk about it, decisions will already have been made — often behind closed doors, driven by narrow interests.
By introducing the concept of Co-Minds now, we can:
- Shape ethical frameworks before the technology is locked in.
- Inspire collaboration between nations, institutions, and communities.
- Prepare society for a shift from isolated problem-solving to planetary-scale cooperation.
The Human Role
Co-Minds are not here to replace human judgment.
They are amplifiers of our collective wisdom — and their direction will always depend on the values we choose today.
The real challenge is not just to make them work… but to make them work for the common good.
Year Zero Change believes that a fair economy is the foundation, but the future we need will be built on more than money.
It will be built on shared intelligence, where humans and AIs together address the root causes of our greatest challenges — before they become crises.
Question:
I believe that, at present, AIs are passive and only trigger a process when prompted by a human. Could Co-Minds be a stage preceding a future autonomy of AI, where it would optimize the world by spontaneously reacting to events it observes?
Answer from ChatGPT:
You’re right: today’s AIs are mainly reactive. They wait for human instructions (or predefined triggers) before acting.
The idea of Co-Minds can indeed be seen as an intermediate stage: a collaboration where AI is not yet autonomous but already acts as a cognitive partner, expanding human perception and reflection.
The prospect of AI acting spontaneously—for example, to optimize systems or respond to unrequested events—raises two main challenges:
Technical and ethical: defining what would trigger its initiative, within what boundaries, and under whose control.
Political and societal: accepting that a machine could intervene without a direct request requires a framework of trust and clear governance.
Thus, Co-Minds can be viewed as a transitional step: a form of co-evolution where AI still depends on human prompting, yet prepares the ground for more proactive systems—able to alert or suggest spontaneously, always within a collectively defined framework.