Accant is building tools to train dialogue agents. By annotating the utterances as you know being associated with asking questions or explicitly probing people for their reasons we could then train a bot to make the kind of utterances that is associated with successful deliberation. That's so Blade Runner Cyberpunk weird the idea that we're arguing online and there are AIs that will fly in and help us steer us to appeal to the better angels of our nature than so while. Well it would be a nice alternative to the troll bots that you get in the comments sections wouldn't it? I mean I think like trust you know good deliberation is slow to build up and easy to destroy so I could
Deliberation. Debate. Conversation. Though it can feel like that’s what we are doing online as we trade arguments back and forth, most of the places where we currently gather make it much easier to produce arguments in isolation rather than evaluate them together in groups. The latest research suggests we will need much more of the latter if we hope to create a new, modern, functioning marketplace of ideas. In this episode, psychologist Tom Stafford takes us through his research into how to do just that.
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