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, โAI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberationโ
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
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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.
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Introducing: Full-Stack Alignment ๐ฅ
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: ๐งต
๐จ Iโm hosting a Student Researcher @GoogleDeepMind!
Join us on the Autonomous Assistants team (led by @egrefen ) to explore multi-agent communicationโhow agents learn to interact, coordinate, and solve tasks together.
DM me for details!
New paper alert from @GoogleDeepMind! ๐จ We've put LLMs to the test as writing co-pilots โ 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? ๐ค 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!
๐ค๐คMost AI systems assume thereโs just one right answerโbut many tasks have reasonable disagreement. How can we better model human variation? ๐โจ
We propose modeling at the individual-level using open-ended, textual value profiles! ๐ฃ๏ธ๐
arxiv.org/abs/2503.15484
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Can AI help find common ground during active, real-world conflicts?
We worked with @ALLMEP to find common ground between Israeli & Palestinian peacebuilders after Oct 7 2023 using an iterative deliberative process combining LLMs, bridging algorithms, and collective dialogues
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We're hiring! Join an elite team that sets an AGI safety approach for all of Google -- both through development and implementation of the Frontier Safety Framework (FSF), and through research that enables a future stronger FSF.
Want to join one of the best AI safety teams in the world?
We're hiring @GoogleDeepMind! We have open positions for research engineers and research scientists in the AGI Safety & Alignment and Gemini Safety teams.
Locations: London, Zurich, New York, Mountain View and SF
Are you worried about risks from AGI and want to mitigate them?
Come work with me and my colleagues! We're hiring on the AGI Safety & Alignment team (ASAT) and the Gemini Safety team!
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