Civic AI reverses this. It acts like a spotter. It helps build our civic muscles by improving our relationships with one another. You can think of Civic AI as an engineering blueprint for making AI systems civic: a way to constrain self-interested agents so they contribute to the relational health of humanity. Even before the current surge of multi-agent systems, many people worried about AI agents optimizing on behalf of humans in ways that lead to chaos. Civic AI is my answer to that concern.