unprecedented 80 percent A recent Gallup poll found that the share of Americans who believe the country is deeply divided over its most important values ahead of the November election. Today, public polarization spans issues such as immigration, health care, identity politics, transgender rights, or whether to support Ukraine. If you cross the Atlantic, you’ll see the same thing happening in the European Union and the United Kingdom.
To reverse this trend, Google’s DeepMind has built an AI system designed to help people resolve conflicts. Habermas is named after the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who argued that agreement in the public sphere can always be achieved if rational people participate equally in discussions with mutual respect and perfect communication. It’s called a mass machine.
But will DeepMind’s Nobel Prize-winning ingenuity really be enough to solve our political conflicts in the same way it solved chess and chess problems? star craft Or does it predict the structure of a protein? Is it the right tool?
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