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CCC and DemocracyNext Announce Tech-Enhanced Pop-Up Lab to Advance Citizens’ Assemblies
Collaborative two-year experimental lab will focus on ways AI-powered technology can help promote more effective civic engagement
In an era of technological transformation in which social media and generative AI are disrupting our processes of communication and democracy, the MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and the non-profit DemocracyNext have launched a two-year pop-up lab, based at the MIT Media Lab, to harness powerful AI technologies to create constructive, tech-enhanced, and human-led systems shaped by
CCC and DemNext take the first step towards developing a more transparent, inclusive democratic process
By audio recording and analyzing the entirety of the citizens’ assembly process, researchers make strides in understanding what drives effective deliberation
In a landmark achievement, MIT CCC and DemocracyNext have collaborated on the first-of-its-kind, tech-enhanced citizens’ assembly in Deschutes County, Oregon. 12,750 invitation letters were mailed to residents across Central Oregon. Of the respondents, 30 delegates were chosen via sortition (lottery), to be broadly representative of the area.
CCC and DemocracyNext hosted the First-Ever Tech-Enhanced Student Assembly
A dozen students gathered to deliberate on ethical guidelines and regulations needed to govern the use of generative AI for faculty and students at MIT
The MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and the non-profit DemocracyNext came together to design and implement the first tech-enhanced and student-focused version of a Citizens’ Assembly.
