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The Disagreement Lab (opens the original)
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AI has been blamed for driving us further apart and celebrated for helping us find common ground. But what about the space in between — where we still disagree?From October through December, the Council on Technology and Social Cohesion is launching the Disagreement Lab: a series of live, hands-on sessions testing emerging AI-enabled tools for healthier disagreement.Can they help us become more curious about someone else’s perspective? Notice our own assumptions? Express disagreement without
Right Facts, Wrong History (opens the original)
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What happens when a chatbot gets history factually right but changes what it means? As millions increasingly use chatbots as search engines, this question is becoming harder to ignore. In August, the European Commission formally designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE) under the Digital Services Act, with a reported 159.1 million average monthly users in the EU.By January 2027 ChatGPT will be required to assess systemic risks arising from the design and algorit
Now You Can Choose a Constructive Feed (opens the original)
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Find out more about MySky at mysky.social and betterconflictbulletin.org and follow the work of Senior Scientist at UC Berkeley’s CHAI Jonathan Stray.Lots of people blame the problems with the internet on “too many angry people.”As a peacebuilder, I have seen tons of projects trying to tackle that diagnosis: promoting messages of peace and tolerance, or to be kinder and more respectful of diversity. Those things can help. But they miss something more systemic.T
I’ll Take the Teen Account, Please (opens the original)
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Australian teenagers have spent months trying to convince social media platforms they are older than they really are. After today’s live Tech Policy Press podcast on Meta’s settlement, I started wondering whether adults may start posing as teens.Alissa Cooper, Executive Director of the Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) asked: “Why do only minors get these protections?” Fewer notifications. Hidden ‘like’ counts. Nighttime restrictions. The chat quickly filled with
What Should Stay Human in AI-Enabled Participation? (opens the original)
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AI can now expand citizen participation in ways that were difficult to imagine a few years ago. The harder question is how to use that capability while strengthening the human work participation depends on: questioning, disagreement, interpretation, and collective judgment.A remarkably comprehensive new OECD/Bertelsmann Stiftung report, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Citizen Participation, shows just how far the experimentation has gone. Drawing on 50 ca
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