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Visualizing "We the People": Bridging the Perception Gap through Pluralistic Data Storytelling
Lisa Schirch, Beth Goldberg
Traditional visual data storytelling relies on binary graphics that depict two simplified groups in conflict. This can increase political polarization by oversimplifying intra-grou…
The Prosocial Ranking Challenge: Reducing Polarization on Social Media without Sacrificing Engagement
Jonathan Stray, Ian Baker, George Beknazar-Yuzbashev +41
We report the first direct comparisons of multiple alternative social media algorithms on multiple platforms on outcomes of societal interest. We used a browser extension to modify…
A Taxonomy of Response Strategies to Toxic Online Content: Evaluating the Evidence
Lisa Schirch, Kristina Radivojevic, Cathy Buerger
Toxic Online Content (TOC) includes messages on digital platforms that are harmful, hostile, or damaging to constructive public discourse. Individuals, organizations, and LLMs resp…
Using Collective Dialogues and AI to Find Common Ground Between Israeli and Palestinian Peacebuilders
Andrew Konya, Luke Thorburn, Wasim Almasri +4
A growing body of work has shown that AI-assisted methods -- leveraging large language models, social choice methods, and collective dialogues -- can help navigate polarization and…
AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares
Beth Goldberg, Diana Acosta-Navas, Michiel Bakker +24
Two substantial technological advances have reshaped the public square in recent decades: first with the advent of the internet and second with the recent introduction of large lan…
Chain of Alignment: Integrating Public Will with Expert Intelligence for Language Model Alignment
Andrew Konya, Aviv Ovadya, Kevin Feng +4
We introduce a method to measure the alignment between public will and language model (LM) behavior that can be applied to fine-tuning, online oversight, and pre-release safety che…
Deliberative Technology for Alignment
Andrew Konya, Deger Turan, Aviv Ovadya +6
For humanity to maintain and expand its agency into the future, the most powerful systems we create must be those which act to align the future with the will of humanity. The most…
Democratic Policy Development using Collective Dialogues and AI
Andrew Konya, Lisa Schirch, Colin Irwin +1
We design and test an efficient democratic process for developing policies that reflect informed public will. The process combines AI-enabled collective dialogues that make deliber…