product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Deliberative Technology: Designing AI and Computational Democracy for Peacebuilding in Highly-Polarized Contexts
The report discusses a workshop focused on utilizing deliberative technologies to enhance democratic processes, promote social cohesion, and address polarization in various global contexts, emphasizing citizen participation and collective intelligence.
For me, what we’ve got to do now is hunker down. The units of survival are going to be local communities, so I’m urging local communities to get together. Finland is offering a great example because the Finnish government has sent a letter to all of their citizens warning of future emergencies, whether they’re earthquakes, floods, droughts, or... See more
We found that writing prompts generally allowed participants to create personal content filters with higher performance more quickly, primarily driven by having the highest recall despite comparable precision across conditions.
It's unfortunate because too much of a good thing (and it is a good thing – shrewd and well-intentioned people sharing the things that have helped them), when consumed in a frantic haze, becomes a bad thing (a cacophony of voices shoving advice down your throat, bolstering your belief that there's something you're doing wrong and if you just fixed... See more