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  Stripping Away "Overlay" Problems That Make Conflicts Appear More Intractable Than They Really Are >
  Limiting Communication Problems and the Resulting Misunderstandings
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Develop Constructive Uses of IT

BI Article
Could Congress Leverage AI to Help Restore Faith in US Democracy?
Communication between Congressmembers and their constituents is democracy's mission critical data. Combined with other kinds of expertise, this data could serve as the digital foundation of a modern representative system.

BI Article
A Beyond Intractability GPT?
An initial report on why and how BI is starting to experiment with AI. We'll know more over time, but the initial experiments are intriguing!

Colleague Activities
Ethelo
Ethelo is a "digital democracy platform" that helps organizations come to consensus solutions after involving many stakeholders in an online deliberative process.

Colleague Activities
Designing Tech for Social Cohesion
A Search For Common Ground conference, exploring how tech design and algorithms can promote pro-social content, instead of divisive content. Feb 23-25 in San Francisco and online.

Colleague Activities
Council on Technology and Social Cohesion
Social cohesion is the glue that hold society together -- particularly in the face of toxic polarization. We need technology that builds trust and civic health rather than outrage and division

Colleague Activities
Digital Peacebuiling
A description of an "open community of practice" to advance the analysis and response to online conflict dynamics and harnessing digital tools to further peacebuilding success.

Colleague Activities
Digital Community Stewards Training
This free online training curriculum aims to help digital community stewards who host online groups prevent harm and build social cohesion through those online interactions.

News and Opinion
Can an Algorithm Help Solve Political Paralysis?

News and Opinion
Let AI remake the whole U.S. government (oh, and save the country)
A rare and hopeful article about the ways in which AI could be used to increase the trustworthiness of governmental institutions -- with at least one real-world precedent.