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

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.

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.

Interesting question... crowdsourcing of one kind or another will be relevant to very many kinds of research - Michael Nielsen's book Reinventing Discovery is great on this. But "all" is a tough standard to meet. My guess is that there will always be some forms of research that are not suited to crowdsourcing. An interesting example is writing novels - not research exactly, but not too far away. Crowdsourcing hasn't been very good for that. BTW the SWARM Project is not exactly crowdsourcing our own research. Rather we're researching into crowdsourcing (or rather, groupsourcing - see an earlier reply) can improve analytical reasoning. I think what we are seeing is that organisations are increasingly realising that tough analytical problems need collaboration among increasingly large groups. The problem is how that collaboration works, and what kind of technological support it needs. SWARM is one kind of approach to that.

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)