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?

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 on elicitation inference methods for aggregating and understanding collective preferences from participant inputs.

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...

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...

An AI-powered platform facilitating inclusive democratic dialogue through three stages: ‘Discuss’ (capturing conversations in-person, online, or hybrid with real-time transcription in 100+ languages); ‘Analyze’ (extracting key ideas, clustering themes, providing interactive visualization), and ‘R...

An open-source platform for large-scale opinion gathering and analysis that complements lottery-selected citizen assemblies by expanding participation and enhancing deliberative processes. Polis integrates with assemblies through six strategies: topic selection, topic framing, epistemic diversity...

An AI-powered insights platform enabling organizations to conduct hybrid market research through live digital focus groups (up to 1,000 participants), asynchronous surveys (up to 5,000 participants), and video interviews at scale. Participants respond to questions and vote on each other’s answers...

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...

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...

An AI-powered collective intelligence platform enabling organizations to gain insights from real-time conversations with hundreds or thousands of participants in less than one hour. The platform combines human dialogue with AI to extract meaningful insights, achieving results up to 333x faster th...