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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.

Maturity:
Medium
Importance:
Medium
Opportunity:
Medium
Neglectedness:
Medium
Transnational:
Medium

How this is performed now...

  • 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.

Related Resources

Experimental Practice

Collective Constitutional AI: Aligning a Language Model with Public Input

Anthropic's partnership with the Collective Intelligence Project where approximately 1,000 Americans collectively drafted principles to guide AI behavior through online deliberation using the Polis platform. Participants submitted 1,127 statements and cast 38,252 votes, with the team converting p...
Research

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

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...
Product

Talk to the City

An AI-powered deliberation platform by AI Objectives Institute that extracts positions from unstructured text, organizes them into argument clusters based on reasoning similarity, and presents findings through interactive visualization. Features include LLM representatives from each perspective e...
Product

GoVocal

A community engagement platform serving 600+ governments globally, enabling feedback collection through surveys, voting, mapping, ideation, and participatory budgeting both online and offline. Features AI-powered analysis to identify themes, priorities, and community sentiment with quick reportin...
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Dembrane

A web-based platform that turns unstructured dialogue into actionable plans and policies in real time, enabling organizations to capture input from 2 to 5,000+ participants simultaneously through audio and text recording. Conversations are automatically transcribed and analyzed using AI, providin...