Future Intelligence Think Tank Surpasses 1,000 Members
The Future Intelligence Think Tank crossed 1,000 members in September 2026. More than two-thirds of participants come from outside ASSIST Software, representing companies, universities, research institutions, and professional fields that rarely share a forum. Engineers alongside ethicists, founders alongside educators, clinicians alongside technologists, that mix is what makes the conversations worth having.
What the conversations look like
The subjects attracting the most sustained attention are not always the ones that dominate technology headlines. Members have spent significant time on questions that sit at the edge of what AI can and cannot do: how professional judgment changes when people supervise AI-generated work rather than produce their own, what physical and financial constraints actually underlie the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure, and which decisions need to be made before autonomous systems operate without reliable human oversight.
Other discussions have moved into territory that a purely technical community might not explore, such as organizational knowledge and how it degrades, authorship and creativity in an AI-assisted environment, and the humanitarian implications of decisions being made now about systems that will operate for decades.
Engineers and specialists from ASSIST Software participate in these discussions alongside members from other organizations, bringing experience from AI development and deployment into conversations that benefit from that grounding. The result tends to be exchanges where practical constraints and broader implications inform each other, rather than running in parallel.
A community extending beyond LinkedIn
Since the first milestone article, the community has continued to develop outside the LinkedIn group itself. Longer perspectives are published through Medium and Substack, where selected discussions are explored in greater depth. The Future Intelligence Think Tank website brings together featured conversations, community information, and ways to participate. Faculty members at Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava have featured the community with their academic audiences, extending its reach into research and education.
The questions the community is working through do not fit neatly into a LinkedIn format. How organizations make decisions under uncertainty, how expertise changes when AI is involved, what responsible deployment actually requires, these are subjects that benefit from longer form and more varied contexts than a group post allows.
What a mixed community makes possible
The same development in AI can look entirely different depending on where you encounter it. A researcher assessing the evidence, an engineer making implementation decisions, and a business leader deciding whether and how to deploy a system are often looking at the same technology through incompatible frames of reference. A community that brings those frames into contact does something that a homogeneous group cannot.
That is what the Future Intelligence Think Tank has been working toward since its founding. The number matters less than what produced it, a sustained interest in questions that don't have easy answers, from people who encounter them from genuinely different positions. Whether the community continues to be worth participating in will depend on whether those conversations stay that way.
If these are the kinds of questions you work with, the Future Intelligence Think Tank is open to you. Join the conversation on LinkedIn.
