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AI Senate

AI Senate is a free multi-agent AI simulation in which 100 AI "senators" debate news headlines and vote on them in a mock chamber that humans can only watch.

2026

True Causes

True Causes is a web tool for group root-cause analysis at scale: everyone writes causes alone, the group links them pair-by-pair at 75% agreement into a shared map whose "roots" are what to act on, digitising the decades-old Structured Democratic Dialogue method.

2026

Zeitgeist Deliberation Platform

Zeitgeist is a public-deliberation platform from Nesta's Centre for Collective Intelligence Design that combines qualitative group discussion with quantitative polling in one experience, letting governments and charities run scalable, engaging consultations.

58 Victoria Embankment

Computable Competition–Cooperation Mechanisms

An open-source reference implementation for making declared multi-actor constraints explicit, reproducible, and challengeable across competition and cooperation scenarios.

Hunome

Hunome is a collective sensemaking platform and delivers deliberative intelligence.

Finland

Citizens' Track on AI

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.

UK
2026
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Cosmik

Building tools and networks for collective sensemaking

Cambridge, MA
2026

ANTIPARTY

Born from the partygate scandal in the UK, discover how the movement has evolved to challenge the two-party system and dismiss party politics in favour of a more direct, deliberative democracy that empowers citizens

UK

Plurality Institute

The Plurality Institute develops and experiments with plural technologies by convening researchers and collaborators from a range of fields including computer science, political ethics, sociology, and government.

USA