Argument mapping software combining collective intelligence and AI
Swarmcheck is a collective argument mapping software that combines reasoning from different discussions. Additionally, argument mining algorithms can recreate comprehensive and reusable argumentation on any topic to represent and draw conclusions from accumulated discourse. Swarmcheck was founded in 2017 with a mission to improve rational public discourse. It was used in over 50 projects in policy-making, public consultations, strategic decision-making, critical thinking education, and combating disinformation. It is highly modular and can be used in both live workshop settings and asynchronous processes. Research groups, NGOs, academics, and the pharmaceutical industry use the real-time Delphi feature for forecasting, strategic planning, risk assessment, and acquiring expert consensus. Swarmcheck develops several new use cases in legal-tech, decentralised science, and AI safety, as collective argument mapping can substitute chain-of-thought reasoning in approaches like Deliberative Alignment to train more capable and safe models controlled by public discourse. Swarmcheck has a community that helps with R&D and is open to collaborations.
Parent organization: Fundacja Optimum Pareto
A working group of the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science. Informational Democracy publishes provocations, groundings, and reflections on topics such as collective intelligence, the role of AI in democratic systems, attention as a democratic resource, and the infrastructural transformation of the public sphere.
An initiative to use participatory practice to address the democratic deficit in AI governance, and bring greater alignment with the public interest, agency for communities, and accountability to AI governance.
