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I am really beyond words to be able to share with the world what @bakkermichiel, @summerfieldlab, and I and a truly world-class team @GoogleDeepMind worked on for the past 2 years. Out today in @ScienceMagazine, “AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation”

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People are sometimes surprised by the range of my work. I remind them that we humans are the Original General Intelligences 😏

A great collaboration with @georgie_a_evans , @bakkermichiel , @IasonGabriel , Sophie Bridgers, @shubadubadub , Raphael Koster, @verena_rieser, @ancadianadragan , @mattbotvinick , and @summerfieldlab 9/9

AI isn't a panacea, but it offers a powerful tool to navigate democratic trade-offs. We need more work on oversight and understanding strategic behavior in AI mediated deliberation, but the path to better citizen engagement is a little more clear we hope. 8/9

Democracy relies on the free exchange of views, but scaling faces a "trilemma": it's hard to balance Participation, Deliberation, and Equality simultaneously. In our paper, first presented at @knightcolumbia we ask: Can AI help? arxiv.org/abs/2601.05904 1/9

Introducing: Full-Stack Alignment 🥞 A research program dedicated to co-aligning AI systems *and* institutions with what people value. It's the most ambitious project I've ever undertaken. Here's what we're doing: 🧵

🚨 I’m hosting a Student Researcher @GoogleDeepMind! Join us on the Autonomous Assistants team (led by @egrefen ) to explore multi-agent communication—how agents learn to interact, coordinate, and solve tasks together. DM me for details!

New paper alert from @GoogleDeepMind! 🚨 We've put LLMs to the test as writing co-pilots – how good are they really at helping us write? LLMs are increasingly used for open-ended tasks like writing assistance, but how do we assess their effectiveness? 🤔 arxiv.org/abs/2503.19711

Going beyond demographics to model individual variation in human judgments for AI alignment. Very happy to see this great work by Taylor reach the outside!

woooooo! Out in Child Development: "Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional Misunderstandings in Children" paper: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd… preprint: tomerullman.org/papers/kids_lo…

Very interesting demonstration of using AI for peace. Incredible effort

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