diff --git a/contents/english/5-4-augmented-deliberation.md b/contents/english/5-4-augmented-deliberation.md index 57e11d02..81461669 100644 --- a/contents/english/5-4-augmented-deliberation.md +++ b/contents/english/5-4-augmented-deliberation.md @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Polis is a prominent example of what leading ⿻ technologists [Aviv Ovadya](htt [^deminputs]: Tyna Eloundou and Teddy Lee, "Democratic Inputs to AI Grant Program: Lessons Learned and Implementation Plans", *OpenAI Blog*, January 16, 2024 at https://openai.com/blog/democratic-inputs-to-ai-grant-program-update -An approach with similar goals but a bit of an opposite starting point centers in-person conversations but aims to improve the way their insights can be networked and shared. A leading example in this category is the approach developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's [Center for Constructive Communication](https://www.ccc.mit.edu/) in collaboration with their civil society collaborators; called [Cortico](https://cortico.ai/). This approach and technology platform, dubbed [Fora](https://cortico.ai/platform/), uses a mixture of the identity and association protocols we discussed in the Freedom part of the book and natural language processing to allow recorded conversations on challenging topics to remain protected and private while surfacing insights that can travel across these conversations and spark further discussion. Community members, with permission from the speakers, lift consequential highlights up to stakeholders, such as government, policy makers or leadership within an organization. Cortico has used this technology to help inform civic processes such as the 2021 election of Michelle Wu as Boston's the first Taiwanese American mayor of a major US city.[^RealTalk] The act of soliciting perspectives via deep conversational data in collaboration with under-served communities imbues the effort with a legitimacy absent from faster modes of communication. Related tools, of differing degrees of sophistication, are used by organizations like [StoryCorps](https://storycorps.org/) and [Braver Angels](https://braverangels.org/) and have reached millions of people. +An approach with similar goals but a bit of an opposite starting point centers in-person conversations but aims to improve the way their insights can be networked and shared. A leading example in this category is the approach developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's [Center for Constructive Communication](https://www.ccc.mit.edu/) in collaboration with their civil society collaborators; called [Cortico](https://cortico.ai/). This approach and technology platform, dubbed [Fora](https://cortico.ai/platform/), uses a mixture of the identity and association protocols we discussed in the Freedom part of the book and natural language processing to allow recorded conversations on challenging topics to remain protected and private while surfacing insights that can travel across these conversations and spark further discussion. Community members, with permission from the speakers, lift consequential highlights up to stakeholders, such as government, policy makers or leadership within an organization. Cortico has used this technology to help inform civic processes such as the 2021 election of Michelle Wu as Boston's first Taiwanese American mayor of a major US city.[^RealTalk] The act of soliciting perspectives via deep conversational data in collaboration with under-served communities imbues the effort with a legitimacy absent from faster modes of communication. Related tools, of differing degrees of sophistication, are used by organizations like [StoryCorps](https://storycorps.org/) and [Braver Angels](https://braverangels.org/) and have reached millions of people. A third approach attempts to leverage and organize existing media content and exchanges, rather than induce participants to produce new content. This approach is closely allied to academic work on "digital humanities", which harnesses computation to understand and organize human cultural output at scale. Organizations like the [Society Library](https://www.societylibrary.org/) collect available material from government documentation, social media, books, television etc. and organize it for citizens to highlight the contours of debate, including surfacing available facts. This practice is becoming increasingly scalable with some of the tools we describe below by harnessing digital technology to extend the tradition described above by extending the scale of deliberation by networking conversations across different venues together.