6 papers
Can AI mediation improve democratic deliberation?
Michael Henry Tessler, Georgina Evans, Michiel A. Bakker +8
The strength of democracy lies in the free and equal exchange of diverse viewpoints. Living up to this ideal at scale faces inherent tensions: broad participation, meaningful delib…
Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
Gheorghe Comanici, Eric Bieber, Mike Schaekermann +3431
In this report, we introduce the Gemini 2.X model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, as well as our earlier Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite models. Gemini 2.5 Pro is our…
Full-Stack Alignment: Co-Aligning AI and Institutions with Thick Models of Value
Joe Edelman, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Ryan Lowe +30
Beneficial societal outcomes cannot be guaranteed by aligning individual AI systems with the intentions of their operators or users. Even an AI system that is perfectly aligned to…
Value Profiles for Encoding Human Variation
Taylor Sorensen, Pushkar Mishra, Roma Patel +6
Modelling human variation in rating tasks is crucial for personalization, pluralistic model alignment, and computational social science. We propose representing individuals using n…
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…
Language Agents as Digital Representatives in Collective Decision-Making
Daniel Jarrett, Miruna Pîslar, Michiel A. Bakker +6
Consider the process of collective decision-making, in which a group of individuals interactively select a preferred outcome from among a universe of alternatives. In this context,…