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We're trying to limit our ambitions to improving analytical reasoning at the moment :)

Re first question - very interesting. Our goal is to improve analytical reasoning. This can potentially help national security greatly. Think about the invasion of Iraq - arguably based on faulty analytical reasoning (and not just because of politicization). Better intelligence analysis might have averted that massively tragic episode, and all the damage it has done to the national security of the US and allied countries. And if countries like the US can make blunders based on bad intelligence, that's going to be true also for its enemies. So we might all be safer if we share any methods and technologies for improved intelligence.

Re second question - this is certainly a technical challenge. It is faced all the time already in organisations where information has to be shared, but different people have different levels of access. SWARM isn't dealing with that problem yet because the platform is only being tested on fictional scenarios with no sensitive or classified information.

We draw on all three areas. One particular topic we draw on is a theory about expertise in human reasoning. One view is that good reasoning is about applying the rules of logic and probability theory. There's of course some truth in that, but an alternative view is that humans build up a diverse toolkit of reasoning skills. The SWARM platform is designed to support a team to draw upon the range of skills the members of the crowd bring to bear, finding the most appropriate tool combination for any given problem.

Bees have remarkable collective intelligence. Particularly in the way they select a new home. See this article: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/crowdsourcing-security-intelligence for more about swarms and SWARM! (Also, as it happens, I keep bees)