Deliberation.io
activeOpen-source platform from Stanford HAI's Digital Economy Lab and MIT GOV/LAB using Socratic dialogue for large-scale AI-assisted deliberation. Four components: individual engagement, AI agent interaction, "Face of the Crowd" opinion distribution, "Dynamic Deliberation." First US city deployment: Washington DC (July 2025).
Organizations
1| Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab | Research lab at Stanford directed by James Fishkin, inventor of deliberative polling. Has conducted 150+ deliberative polls in 50+ countries since 1988. "America in One Room" series demonstrated 18-point drops in dissatisfaction with democracy. Increasingly incorporating AI for translation, synthesis, and moderation. |
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2| Talk to the City | Open-source LLM tool for scaling deliberation. Analyzes large-scale public input (surveys, interviews, social media), clusters opinions using semantic analysis, and creates interactive navigable opinion maps. Deployed in Taiwan (moda ministry), Chatham House "Recursive Public" project (1,000 participants), Tokyo election polling, UNFCCC climate negotiations. Audrey Tang says it reduces "broad-listening" cost to "essentially zero." |
| Polis | Open-source AI-assisted deliberation platform using ML clustering to map opinion landscapes. Participants submit brief statements and vote agree/disagree/pass; algorithms cluster similar voters and surface bridging consensus. No reply button (eliminates trolling). Deployed in dozens of countries across five continents. vTaiwan: 26+ issues, 80% implementation rate. Anthropic CCAI: ~1,000 participants contributed to training Claude's constitution. |
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