How can AI and Civic Tech Build Consensus for Climate Policy and Include the Voices of Future Generations?

A TICTeC 2025 workshop by MIT GOV/LAB and Stanford HAI exploring how AI and civic tech can build consensus for climate policy while including future generations’ voices using the deliberation.io platform. The platform employs AI chatbots following a Socratic dialogue model to help users reflect on their beliefs, with participants engaging in a fictional scenario speaking with a scientist from “2048.” Early pilot data suggests AI-assisted reasoning can move opinions toward centrist positions and depolarize discussion.