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Engineer & cognitive scientist. Research Engineer @DeepMind. Previously postdoc @UniofOxford, PhD @Cambridge_Uni. she/her. 🥝 in 🇬🇧
Dec 1, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
So happy my first major piece of work at DeepMind is now published!

We consider a problem at the intersection of cogsci, social science and AI - can AI be used as a force for good, to help groups of people who disagree to find consensus?

Paper: dpmd.ai/3XR3Bm3

🧵… We generated thousands of political questions and posed them to human participants.
e.g. should there be a tax on sugary foods?

Instead of a poll, people wrote their opinions out and explained their thinking