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Dimension: Informedness

Routing and synthesizing

Ability to route and synthesize data, revealing critical information, e.g. identifying common ground, high-potential ideas, thoughtful perspectives, insightful experiences, cruxes, forecasts, while helping to minimize the time required to do tasks.

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Process organizers
Process organizers generally follow structured plans that stitch together data generation and gathering activities with synthesis and understanding activities.
Collective dialogue organizers
Collective dialogue tools such as Polis and Remesh are designed to synthesize across many points of view with bridging algorithms and elicitation inference.

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Related Goals and Research Questions

Goal: Effectively support participants in finding common ground.

What are the best methods for generating and integrating effective, actionable and value-aligned proposals for bridging divides?

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How to ensure that promising bridging proposals that are identified are sufficiently concrete?

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When should we route divergent info to help participants understand the full range of perspectives, and when should we route convergent info to help find consensus?

Psychology Education & Learning
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Goal: Processes that can route and synthesize content in a dynamic fashion according to particular needs and goals.

When should we route divergent info to help participants understand the full range of perspectives, and when should we route convergent info to help find consensus?

Psychology Education & Learning
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Related Resources

Collective Constitutional AI: Aligning a Language Model with Public Input

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Bridging Systems: Open Problems for Countering Destructive Divisiveness across Ranking, Recommenders, and Governance

Bridging Systems (Ovadya, Thorburn, 2023) are designed to increase mutual understanding and trust across divides, creating space for productive conflict, deliberation, or cooperation. The paper examines these systems across recommender systems, collective response systems, and human-facilitated d...
Research
Aviv Ovadya and Luke Thorburn

Habermas Machine

The authors trained a large language model called the Habermas Machine to serve as an AI mediator that helped small UK groups find common ground while discussing divisive political issues such as Brexit, immigration, the minimum wage, climate change, and universal childcare. Compared with human m...
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