AI
Can AI help us disagree better? Democracy thrives when diverse voices are heard, but at scale, participation, political equality, and meaningful discussion often pull against each other. New research asks whether AI mediators powered by large language models can ease this trilemma. Building on a recent tool that helped people
UrbanPlanning
Cities need AI that can explain itself Most planning AI spots patterns in data. The next leap is AI that helps choose sites, allocate budgets, and balance trade-offs—while showing its work. This paper introduces the Agentic Urban Planning AI Framework built on new reasoning methods like Chain-of-Thought, ReAct, and
CivicTech
In citizens’ assemblies and online town halls, many people submit questions for experts—but only a few make it on stage. How do we choose a small set that truly reflects everyone’s concerns? Researchers introduce a way to audit representation of the chosen questions, grounded in a social-choice idea