3 papers
cs.MA2026
The Deliberative Deficit: An Empirical Critique of LLMs in Democratic Discourse
Maurice Flechtner
LLMs are increasingly deployed in settings that require collective reasoning on complex, value-laden problems. Confidence in these deployments rests largely on benchmarks for verif…
cs.AI2026
Belief Engine: Configurable and Inspectable Stance Dynamics in Multi-Agent LLM Deliberation
Joshua C. Yang, Maurice Flechtner, Damian Dailisan +1
LLM-based agents are increasingly used to simulate deliberative interactions such as negotiation, conflict resolution, and multi-turn opinion exchange. Yet generated transcripts of…
cs.CY2025
Automatic generation of DRI Statements
Maurice Flechtner
Assessing the quality of group deliberation is essential for improving our understanding of deliberative processes. The Deliberative Reason Index (DRI) offers a sophisticated metri…