Acropolis OS – Autonomous Community AGI

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Acropolis OS – Autonomous Community AGI

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  • Proposal for BGI Nexus 1
  • Funding Request $50,000 USD
  • Funding Pools Beneficial AI Solutions
  • Total 3 Milestones

Overview

Civilizations collapse from internal social fabric failure, not external forces. Acropolis OS provides open-source tools for effective community and organization self-organization, tackling this issue. By shaping community ontology, Acropolis OS establishes foundational identity, enabling cohesive structure and effective world engagement. Based on ontology-driven knowledge, Community AI Agents offer context-aware, adaptive services, enhancing member efficiency and information access. Autonomous Community AGI, Acropolis OS aims to foster seamless coordination, maximizing symbiotic intelligence – human and AI fusion for resilient, self-governing collectives.

Proposal Description

How Our Project Will Contribute To The Growth Of The Decentralized AI Platform

Acropolis OS directly aids BGI Nexus: democratizing knowledge tools for communities mirrors Nexus inclusiveness. It builds collective intelligence & resilience at grassroots, supporting Nexus's wisdom gathering for a beneficial future. Empowering anyone, anywhere to contribute & shape AI ethics aligns with BGI's core, participatory mission, acting as a foundational block for their ambitious vision.

Our Team

  • Fluran: AI & Social Scientist

    • Tech lead (LangChain, graphs, agents, vector database, GraphRag, knowledge base (neo4j)). Builds knowledge infrastructure for BGI network AI agent.

  • Victor: Project Management

    • Silicon Valley product expertise. Ensures actionable, scalable Acropolis OS for BGI's global participation.

  • Team Goal: Open-source tools for community empowerment & beneficial future, directly supporting BGI mission.

AI services (New or Existing)

neo4j

Type

New AI service

Purpose

To represent community knowledge as interconnected relationships enabling advanced querying reasoning and discovery of insights from community data. It allows the system to understand the context and connections between different pieces of information going beyond simple keyword search to uncover deeper patterns and relationships within the community's collective knowledge.

AI inputs

Structured data extracted from community documents communication transcripts and agent profiles. This data is transformed into nodes and relationships within the Neo4j graph database based on the community's ontology.

AI outputs

A rich knowledge graph representing the community's information. This output is used by the Community AI Agent for context-aware question answering information retrieval task routing and proactive support services. It provides structured knowledge for AI-driven insights and decision making

Semantic Similarity Binary

How it will be used

We are using the SNET Semantic Similarity Binary service to analyze text snippets within the Acropolis OS knowledge base and community interactions. This allows us to identify semantically similar user queries group related discussions or documents and improve the accuracy of information retrieval and question answering by understanding the meaning of text beyond keywords.

The core problem we are aiming to solve

Internal Coordination Failure

Civilizations collapse cyclically,

not due to a lack of resources or technologies, but due to an internal failure of the social fabric.

Civilizations collapse when they fail to govern themselves, to adapt, and to defend themselves from external threats.

Think of it as a human being – when our body and mind fail to maintain themselves,

they cannot adapt or defend.

how will we overcome this perennial problem?
while AI is not the solution to everything,
however, it is a key

and with AI, the Community, Companies, Society, Organizations can be more self-aware to adapt.

Our specific solution to this problem

 

Symbiotic Intelligence

Self-governance requires self-awareness.

A sense of self is crucial for human thriving. Similarly, organizations need self-understanding to succeed.

Ontology:

Human beings coordinate through language, co-creating reality by sharing concepts and navigating the world through shared truths.

Shaping the ontology of a community brings clarity and allows humans and AI agents to work together symbiotically.

Through shaping ontology, the community emerges.

Knowledge Base:

By leveraging vector databases, knowledge graphs (e.g., neo4j), and cost-effective LLMs like gpt-4o-mini or Gemini Flash, communities can establish both shared and individual knowledge bases.

Human knowledge is inherently limited in scope. In contrast, AI can track every event within the community and the knowledge generated by its members.

 

Community AI Agent:

A Community AI Agent, possessing omni-awareness of its community and retrieving knowledge context from the community knowledge base, offers services.

It can answer user inquiries.

It can identify and contact relevant agents or humans to handle specific tasks.

 

 

Collecting Data:

Collecting transcripts, messages, texts, and documents, agents profile(both for human and AI agents) is crucial for establishing an ontological ground.

This project offers solutions for both centralized and decentralized knowledge base ownership.

 

 

Platforms:

Communication integration:

  • Video: Zoom, WebRTC

  • Chat: Discord, Telegram

database Integration:

  • databasae: Coda, Notion

Project details

Acropolis OS: Building Resilient Communities Through Symbiotic Intelligence

Civilizations often decline not from resource lack, but internal failures of social fabric and self-governance. Communities losing self-understanding, coordination, adaptability, and informed decision-making become vulnerable. This internal breakdown, like a body losing vital system maintenance, underlies civilizational decline, surpassing mere resource or technology issues.

Acropolis OS, an open-source project, addresses this. It offers a solution: strengthening community governance and resilience via symbiotic intelligence. By pairing AI with human ingenuity, Acropolis OS equips communities – from local groups to businesses – to thrive in a complex, changing world.

The Core Problem: Internal Governance Failure

Acropolis OS tackles systemic self-governance failure. This manifests as:

  • Erosion of Shared Understanding: Lost collective memory & identity. Fragmented, inaccessible knowledge. Fading wisdom, hindering learning & adaptation.

  • Breakdown of Communication & Coordination: Lack of common language, misunderstandings rife. Disjointed efforts, wasted resources, misaligned goals.

  • Diminished Adaptive Capacity: Struggle processing info, identifying threats/opportunities, responding effectively. Slow adaptation, vulnerability.

  • Compromised Decision-Making: Decisions based on incomplete data, biases. Suboptimal choices, eroded trust, weakened governance.

These interconnected issues reflect internal governance breakdown. Acropolis OS provides tools to rebuild community self-awareness, improve communication, enhance adaptability, and enable informed decisions – fostering resilience and enabling thriving.

Acropolis OS: A Symbiotic Intelligence Solution

Acropolis OS is open-source, built on Ontology, Knowledge Base, and Community AI Agent synergy to empower communities:

1. Ontology: Shaping Shared Reality

The core is a community ontology: a collaborative, structured representation of key concepts, relationships, and community knowledge. It's a shared "mental map" clarifying:

  • Concepts: Defining key terms, roles, entities (e.g., "member," "project," "skill").

  • Relationships: Connecting concepts (e.g., "member 'has a' skill").

  • Properties: Describing concept attributes (e.g., "project" 'status,' 'deadline').

Ontology building is collaborative & community-driven. Acropolis OS provides tools (visual editors, semantic web interfaces) for this process.

Ontology Benefits:

  • Enhanced Clarity: Reduced ambiguity in communication.

  • Improved Discovery: Efficient knowledge base search via ontological terms.

  • AI Understanding: Structured language for AI Agent, enabling effective services.

  • Shared Mental Model: Deeper collective understanding of community structure & goals.

2. Knowledge Base: Collective Memory & Awareness

Acropolis OS uses cost-effective tech for a powerful community knowledge base: collective memory structured by ontology.

Technology Stack:

  • Vector Databases (e.g., ChromaDB): Semantic search based on meaning.

  • Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Neo4j): Relational knowledge representation, pattern discovery.

  • Runnable on Cost-Effective LLMs (e.g., gpt-4o-mini, gemini flash, Deepseek, llama3): effective operation on low-cost LLMs, Model-agnostic design.

  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation with knowledge graph (GraphRAG): Contextually accurate AI responses from knowledge base. aka second Brain

Knowledge Base Content:

  • Community docs, meeting minutes, plans.

  • Communication transcripts (Discord, Telegram, Zoom - consented, anonymized).

  • Agent profiles (human & AI) - skills, roles.

  • Event & activity records - community history.

Offers centralized/decentralized options for privacy.

3. Community AI Agent: Proactive Intelligence & Services

The Community AI Agent is proactive intelligence, using ontology & knowledge base to aid members.

Agent Capabilities:

  • Omni-Awareness: Comprehensive community understanding from knowledge base & (optional) real-time data.

  • Intelligent Services:

    • Question Answering: Knowledge-based answers to community queries.

    • Information Retrieval: Fast access to relevant information & experts.

    • Task Routing: Connects members based on skills.

    • Proactive Support: Identifies emerging issues & knowledge gaps.

    • Onboarding Assistance: Guides new members.

Agent-framework agnostic for flexibility.

Data Collection & Ethics

Ethical data collection is key:

  • Transparent Sources: Platforms like Zoom, Discord, etc. (consent-based).

  • Ethics & Privacy: Anonymization, user consent, clear policies.

  • Agent Profiling (Ethical): For personalized AI services, with privacy safeguards.

Platform Integration

Focus on common platforms: Zoom, Discord, Telegram, Coda, Notion for accessibility. Future API integrations planned.

Democratizing Power: Open Source & BGI Nexus

Acropolis OS is open-source, democratizing knowledge tools, unlike enterprise solutions. This aligns with BGI Nexus's "anyone, anywhere" vision. Acropolis OS enables communities to build "collective intelligence," enhance agency, contributing to a resilient, collaborative future, and supporting BGI's inclusive, wisdom-driven mission for humankind.

Vision: Resilient Communities

Acropolis OS envisions self-governing, resilient communities navigating complexity via symbiotic intelligence. By strengthening social fabric internally, we build a more stable, adaptable future. Acropolis OS makes communities, and societies, robust, intelligent, and capable for the 21st century and beyond.

Needed resources

While achievable with our current team, Acropolis OS quality & speed would be boosted by:

 

  • UX/UI Designer: For intuitive, user-friendly community interfaces.

  • Platform Integration Dev: API expert (Zoom, Discord etc.) for seamless connection.

  • AI Agent Framework Expert: To advance agent capabilities & intelligence.

  • Frontend Developer: To build polished & accessible user experiences.

Existing resources

Our existing resources include:

  • Core Team Expertise: Our team already possesses skills in AI development (Python, LangChain, knowledge graphs, vector DBs), social science, and project management.

  • Open Source Libraries & Frameworks: We leverage freely available tools like LangChain, Neo4j, ChromaDB, and various LLMs, reducing development costs.

  • Cloud Computing (Free Tier): We can utilize free tiers of cloud platforms for initial development and hosting, still sufficient funding will help us to test out our Program at scale.

  • Community Platforms (Existing): We plan to initially integrate with intellectual Community called Metamodernist, liminal web, who are most intellectually diverse Community, researching "we" space Community sociotechnologies. check out here - MetaCrisis Communities,

Open Source Licensing

MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology License

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  • Total Milestones

    3

  • Total Budget

    $50,000 USD

  • Last Updated

    24 Feb 2025

Milestone 1 - Core Ontology, Knowledge Base & Semantic AI Agent

Description

We will build the framework for community ontology creation, develop a functional knowledge base prototype using a vector database (like ChromaDB), and create a basic data ingestion pipeline from Discord. Crucially, we will develop a Community AI Agent prototype with semantic question answering capabilities, integrating a cost-effective LLM and RAG with the knowledge base, and integrating it into Discord for initial user interaction. The aim is to deliver a functional, albeit initial, symbiotic intelligence system encompassing the core data structures and the primary AI service.

Deliverables

Functional framework for community ontology definition (initial guidelines/tooling). Working prototype of knowledge base using vector database (ChromaDB) populated with Discord data. Basic data ingestion pipeline from Discord (proof of concept). Simple keyword-based search functionality within the knowledge base. Community AI Agent prototype with semantic question answering capabilities (utilizing RAG and LLM). Integration of AI Agent with Discord for user interaction. Real Time Interactive Rag AI assistant

Budget

$12,000 USD

Success Criterion

Demonstrate a functional Acropolis OS prototype featuring a knowledge base populated with Discord data and searchable by keywords, a foundational ontology framework, and a Community AI Agent integrated with Discord capable of semantic question answering relevant to the community data. This validates the core symbiotic intelligence concept and infrastructure feasibility.

Milestone 2 - Functional Community AI Agents

Description

This milestone shifts focus to delivering tangible, functional AI Agent services that actively assist community members in key areas of organization, information management, and crucially, social coordination. We will develop non-autonomous, conversational AI Agents specifically designed to provide practical assistance and to proactively enhance connections and coordination within the community. These agents will leverage semantic and vector similarity search, powered by the relational data within the Neo4j knowledge graph, to deliver intelligent services that not only retrieve knowledge but also activate social interactions. The agents will be designed to help users with tasks like organizing documents and information, transcribing content, providing advice, and importantly, actively recommending relevant individuals to connect with, and suggesting appropriate resources (human, material, financial, intellectual) based on user needs and community availability. The emphasis is on building agents that are active facilitators of community interaction and resource flow, maximizing internal social capital and effective allocation.

Deliverables

Development of at least three functional, non-autonomous Community AI Agents providing specific services. Examples now including social coordination: Document Organization Agent: (As before) Assists with document categorization/tagging. Information Retrieval & Advisory Agent: (As before) Conversational QA, information retrieval, and advice provision. Social Connector & Resource Recommendation Agent: This new agent focuses on: Recommending individuals: Based on user profiles (skills, interests) within the knowledge graph, it will suggest relevant people for users to connect with for collaboration, mentorship, or expertise sharing. Resource Recommendation: Based on user needs and project requirements (extracted from conversations or queries), it will suggest potentially available human, material, financial, or intellectual resources within the community (as defined in the ontology and knowledge base). Integration of these functional AI Agents within the Discord platform for user interaction and testing. Demonstration of AI Agents leveraging semantic/vector similarity search and Neo4j knowledge graph for both knowledge retrieval AND social connection/resource recommendations. Basic user interface elements for interacting with the functional AI Agents within Discord, including features to view recommended connections and resources.

Budget

$20,000 USD

Success Criterion

Demonstrate at least three functional, non-autonomous Community AI Agents operating within Discord, providing tangible services including document organization, information retrieval/advice, and crucially, demonstrable social coordination functionality by recommending relevant individuals and resources. Success is measured by the agents’ ability to effectively leverage semantic/vector search and the knowledge graph to provide useful assistance, facilitate connections, recommend resources, and receive positive initial user feedback on agent functionality, ease of use, and the value of social connection and resource recommendations.

Milestone 3 - Autonomous Community General Intelligence

Description

Milestone 3 explores "Autonomous Community General Intelligence" via society simulation within Acropolis OS. We prototype an augmented, simulated society to enhance collective decision-making. This involves designing a simulation with hundreds of agents, each representing a simulated human with a basic knowledge base. Agents use LLM-driven logic, based on community ontology, for simulated societal processes. We'll integrate real human input, valuing human guidance to create symbiotic intelligence at the community scale for better self-governance. We'll explore self-correction, inspired by relevance realization, using human feedback to refine the simulated society. Simulation areas: communication, norms, responses to challenges, governance impacts. This is a proof-of-concept to demonstrate the feasibility of using society simulation and agents to understand and improve real-world collective decisions. We'll also refine metrics for evaluating "community intelligence" within this simulated social context and impact of human integration.

Deliverables

Design doc for society simulation: agent types, simulated human knowledge, rules, interaction, human input mechanisms. Prototype of simulated society with hundreds of agents, each with a rudimentary knowledge base. Demonstration of agent-driven collective decision-making on scenarios. Mechanisms for integrating real human input into the simulation. Exploration of self-correction using human feedback, inspired by relevance realization. Refined metrics framework to evaluate "community intelligence" in simulation & human impact.

Budget

$18,000 USD

Success Criterion

Demonstrate proof-of-concept for an "augmented, simulated society" in Acropolis OS. Show agents representing individuals, engaging in collective decisions. Evidence of individual agent knowledge, human input integration, and initial self-correction attempts. Refined metrics framework to evaluate simulated society "intelligence". Success measured by demonstrating conceptual validity and technical feasibility of society simulation for enhancing real-world decision-making.

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