Thanks to co-organizers @jasonburton.bsky.social,
@naomishiffman.bsky.social, and @jbakcoleman.bsky.social!

The whole conference looks great this year too! Talks from Cory Doctorow, Kate Starbird, + Glen Weyl; a workshop on futarchy w. Robin Hanson (straight after ours); and lots of papers on using AI to scaffold human coordination and collective decision-making.

ci.acm.org/2025/

This was very much a joint effort with Andrew Konya, Wasim Almasri, Oded Adomi Leshem, Ariel Procaccia, Lisa Schirch, Michiel Bakker @mbakker.bsky.social, and many others.

Looking forward to seeing these kinds of technologies mature!

Link for the full paper below, which documents the whole process, including all the ethical precautions we took.

arxiv.org/abs/2503.01769

This level of agreement is particularly noteworthy because, at the beginning of the process, the substrate of trust that makes dialogue (and Track II diplomacy) possible among peacebuilders in the region had (understandably) grown fragile.

The process resulted in a joint letter to the international community with a set of five demands, each of which has at least 90% of support from participants on each 'side'.

In April – July 2024, in collaboration with the Alliance for Middle-East Peace (ALLMEP), we conducted a series of online collective dialogues with civil society peacebuilders in Israel and Palestine, and used LLMs and bridging-based ranking to surface ideas that had broad support across groups.

This is joint work with @jonathanstray.bsky.social (Berkeley), @juliehawke.bsky.social (Build Up), and Emillie de Keulenaar (UN).