11. From Individual Projects to Communities

The next abstraction was natural.

If a project has purpose, values, current state, desired state, path, work, feedback and learning, then perhaps a project is a small community system.

The same pattern applies to:

• a person,
• a family,
• a band,
• a team,
• a department,
• a company,
• a school,
• a town,
• a state,
• a world.

The unit of the standard became:

community with purpose

A community is not only a group of people.

It is a system that:

• shares some purpose,
• has values,
• makes decisions,
• performs work,
• maintains itself,
• supports its members or users,
• receives feedback,
• learns,
• interacts with other communities,
• and may use AI to accelerate its work.

This became the foundation of AIFC:

AIFC is a standard for purpose-driven communities using AI as an accelerator while preserving human ownership of purpose, values, decisions and responsibility.

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