In spring and summer 2022, Khiplace and Hypermind brought collective intelligence into a community of professional investors. Émile Servan-Schreiber first shared an invitation to Khiplace’s inaugural meeting, then reshared Hypermind’s explanation of a joint exercise to identify emerging threats. The initiative focused on prioritising emerging risks by pooling investors’ financial knowledge.
An inaugural meeting in Paris
The invitation Servan-Schreiber shared on 20 May named him as guest of honour at a meeting scheduled for 14 June at 18:30 in Paris. Aurélien Lafaye’s announcement restricted access to members with registration confirmed by Khiplace. Khiplace’s own testimonials page independently lists its inaugural meeting on 14 June 2022 at We_Are in Paris.
The meeting supplied a specific occasion for discussing collective judgement with investors. Its registration conditions describe that event, while Hypermind’s later invitation concerns a risk exercise. The two announcements connect a professional community with a method for gathering contributions; they do not require assuming that the meeting and online exercise had identical participants.
What investors were asked to contribute
The Hypermind post reshared on 3 July opened with the war in Ukraine, a food crisis and global inflation. It described an alliance with Khiplace to combine investors’ financial knowledge in support of better decisions. The company said its prioritisation tool drew on individual contributions to identify threats it considered both interesting and probable, and invited readers to join the exercise and receive its results.
Hypermind also attributed a broader argument to Servan-Schreiber: collective intelligence could combine information that artificial intelligence did not identify, especially when a problem was new and complex. That was an argument for the approach. The announcement provided no comparison experiment demonstrating superiority to an AI system.
Priorities before probabilities
The distinction matters to readers of the journal’s foresight toolbox article. A ranked threat can help decide what deserves attention. A probability forecast additionally needs a defined event, a deadline and a way to determine whether it occurred. The announcements do not specify the final ranking or those forecasting criteria. For an investment team, prioritisation can be an initial step: select risks for closer examination, then formulate questions about their likelihood and potential consequences. That is an editorial application of the announced approach, rather than an account of the exercise’s results.
