Understanding Polis: an online tool to find consensus
Tue 4 Feb 2025 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM GMT
Online, Zoom
Description
David Curran (University of Coventry) and practitioner academic Hen Wilkinson (Community Resolve and the University of Bristol) host this online presentation and discussion space.
February 4th, 2025, 4-5pm UK time - Understanding Polis: an online tool to find consensus. Shannon Y Hong of OpenFuture presents the potential and challenge of Polis.
This seminar on Polis, a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning. Shannon Y Hong, who currently works with OpenFuture on an AI alignment assembly, will outline real-life examples of where Polis has been used extensively as a tool to find areas of consensus between groups who have differing objectives. In conversation with David, she will also reflect on the real-world dilemmas of operationalising the ideas which have emerged from online spaces.