“The prospect of mass automated deliberation is at hand.”
Fishkin, J. ., Bolotnyy, . V. ., Lerner, . J. ., Siu, A. ., & Bradburn, . N. . (2025). Scaling Dialogue for Democracy: Can Automated Deliberation Create More Deliberative Voters?. Perspectives on Politics, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592724001749
“After having acquired more knowledge about the concrete use cases, participants were overall more supportive of using AI in the decision processes.”
Arnesen, S. ., Broderstad, T. ., Fishkin, . J. ., Johannesson, M. ., & Siu, A. . (2024). Knowledge and support for AI in the public sector: a deliberative poll experiment. AI & SOCIETY . https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-02104-w
“Does deliberation produce any lasting effects?”
Fishkin, J., Bolotnyy, V., Lerner, J., Siu, A., & Bradburn, N. (2024, February 6). Can Deliberation Have Lasting Effects?. American Political Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055423001363
"Using this platform reduces the logistical overhead that would apply to an in-person deliberation and removes the need to hire and train human moderators."
Gelauff, L., Nikolenko, L., Sakshuwong, S., Fishkin, J., Goel, A., Munagala, K., & Siu, A. (2023). Achieving Parity with Human Moderators. The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003215929-15
“Group polarization, while a very worrisome phenomenon, can be avoided with the right precautionary measures.”
Khan, Y. ., & Siu, A. (2023). How College Students Can Depolarize: Evidence for Political Moderation Within Homogeneous Groups. 29(2). https://doi.org/doi.org/10.3998/mjcsl.5140
“Deliberative Polling, even among like-minded individuals can depolarize.”
Winograd, W., & Siu, A. (2022). Depolarizing Through Deliberation in Civics Education: A Case Study of Like-Minded High School Students . The Good Society, 31(1), 86-106.
"The deliberators showed large, depolarizing changes in their policy attitudes and large decreases in affective polarization."
Fishkin, J., Siu, A., Diamond, L. ., & Bradburn, N. (2021). Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room”. American Political Science Review, 115(4), 1464-1481. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000642
"Our framework is tested and applied to a case study of a national deliberative poll on energy held in Japan in 2012."
Mah, D., Cheung, D., Lam, V., Siu, A., Sone, Y., & Li, K.- yan. (2021). Trust gaps in energy transitions: Japan’s National Deliberative Poll after Fukushima. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 39, 249-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.03.002