Habermas Machine
activeGoogle DeepMind's LLM-based "caucus mediator" trained to generate group opinion statements identifying areas of agreement on complex political/social issues. Published in Science (October 2024). Tested on 5,700+ UK participants. AI-mediated statements consistently preferred over human-written ones for quality, clarity, and perceived fairness.
Organizations
3| Computational Democracy Project | Nonprofit stewarding Polis, the open-source AI-assisted deliberation platform used in 35+ countries. Co-founded by Colin Megill. Polis uses ML clustering to map opinion landscapes, surface consensus, and bridge divides. Used by Taiwan's vTaiwan for 26 national issues (80% implementation rate) and by Anthropic for Collective Constitutional AI. |
| Dyspute.ai | 24/7 asynchronous AI mediation platform (Adri v2). Parties engage on their own schedules; AI generates settlement proposals. $299/mediation. Launched January 2026. |
| Olas (Autonolas) | Protocol for building and coordinating autonomous multi-agent systems across blockchains. Uses Tendermint consensus so multiple agents must agree before executing on-chain. Decentralized marketplace for AI agent services. |
People
1| Iason Gabriel | Research Scientist (Ethics) at Google DeepMind. Author of "Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment" (Minds and Machines, 2020). Contributed to the Democratic AI experiment (Koster, Balaguer et al., Nature Human Behaviour, 2022) where RL-designed redistribution won majority human votes over expert-designed alternatives. |
Related Projects
1| 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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