Consensus is an open-source, decentralized artificial intelligence platform powered by the cryptographic token SEN, designed to facilitate more rational constructs of governance mechanisms at all levels. Once fully realized, it will be capable of providing sound solutions to the complex problems we collectively face.

Project Introduction

Consensus is an open-source, decentralized AI platform driven by its native cryptocurrency, envisioned to improve governance mechanisms across all organizational tiers: communities, startups, NGOs, corporations, cities, counties, or entire nations. Once fully realized, Consensus AI will offer automated, data-driven solutions to address our most complex collective issues, modeling the potential outcomes of proposed changes.

The Consensus Foundation aims to establish new systems to tackle these impending challenges and enable effective collective governance based on interdependencies and interconnectedness of issues. We foresee progressive countries issuing digital identities to their citizens within a few years, launching their own cryptocurrencies, and allowing citizens to use them for goods and services payments.

Consensus is an open-source decentralized platform that will aid in managing communities, societies, and jurisdictions in a more transparent, efficient, and advanced manner. We envision project analysis and modeling executed through collective voting, initiative proposals and funding, execution reporting, and smart algorithms, considering efficiency, budgetary concerns, social, environmental, and other factors. We see Consensus being effectively utilized as an AI advisor for organizations and government bodies, serving the greater good of all.

The goal of Consensus is to make governmental structures more effective and useful, ensuring a smooth transition from current conventional structures to those required in the future, minimizing difficulties during the transition phase and avoiding chaos in the process. The Consensus Foundation aims to assist in advancing collective governance systems to meet societys immediate needs and help governments adopt modern technologies for the benefit of humanity, further aiding our collective evolution.

Technical Overview

Consensus System:
1. A sentient blockchain network including validation nodes enabling decentralized machine learning.
2. An expanded data collection research platform and modeling capabilities.
3. AI Advisor - a standalone system continuously monitoring and learning from incoming data for predictions.
Subsequent development stages will include Dapps built internally and externally for various governance applications.

The research platform will enable effective data collection, processing, visualization, and actionable insights, composed of three parts:
1. Data Processing - Research Dashboard, the primary interface for handling data.
2. AI Advisor - Prediction and decision modeling engine.
3. Governance-related modules displayed.

Network
The bulk of work the Consensus system performs involves data collection and processing.
In the information age, data is the most valuable resource generated by both human and non-human actors in massive quantities, but it is often concentrated in large multinational corporations where people often have little control over how their data is used, packaged, sold, and resold, and they certainly do not benefit from the data like the companies generating it do. This dynamic gives a few companies a competitive edge over smaller ones and sometimes even over states.

Essentially, Consensus builds upon the innovations of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other decentralized ledgers by introducing a means to execute machine learning tasks as part of smart contracts. The Consensus network maintains user control over data and privacy, ensuring broader machine learning opportunities for government agencies, small businesses, individual researchers, students, nonprofits. The network will be the core of the Consensus AI project, open-source, simplifying future collaborations and partnerships, and assisting in the networks adoption and growth.

Sen Coin
The Consensus network includes a native platform currency called Sen, the Sen coin provides a payment mechanism for network participants, generated by the network when executing smart contracts, block mining activities, and more, including:
User engagement in public research projects, providing feedback data;
Providing computational resources through nodes for running network algorithms, including the Consensus blockchain, executing smart contracts, and AI training;
Offering storage capacity for collecting and analyzing publicly and internally provided data.
Rewarding participation in public votes and other decision-making processes aimed at addressing voter apathy. Economically rational voters should not vote due to low incentives and costs associated with the process. However, with more individuals incentivized to participate in collective governance, better decision outcomes accrue to the collective welfare.
Reserves of Sen coins will be allocated for network governance, external data acquisition, and further development. Contributors, developers, and partners of the network will help improve, manage, and monitor the network and receive rewards from the reserve according to network governance decisions.

Relevant Links:
https://consensus.ai/
https://new.qq.com/omn/20180208/20180208G13TB9.html
https://medium.com/consensus-ai