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Google scientists developed the “Habermas machine,” a program that helps small groups reach consensus on political issues. It analyzes participants’ views and generates group statements aimed at securing the most support from all members.

Google scientists developed the “Habermas machine,” a program that helps small groups reach consensus on political issues. It analyzes participants’ views and generates group statements aimed at securing the most support from all members.

https://robhorning.substack.com/p/habermas-machines

See also https://www.harmonica.chat

It's exciting that serious work is being done around deliberative democracy.

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Yeah and also, automated political opinion creates an illusion of collective action, while isolating people through media technology...

Dunno... It's complicated 🫠

Remarkable. If only there was a way to take the LLM out of Big Tech's hands so we could decentralize it.

To think of a company like Google having complete control over a model like this is straight up corpa dystopian.