> While broadcasting is the ability to speak to millions of people, broad listening is the ability to hear from millions and synthesize their collective wisdom into a shared voice. And when broadcasting and broad listening are combined, they can enable one person to have a conversation with millions of people.
>It’s because of this that I’m experimenting with this, as if in a laboratory, on various public governance topics. It’s because we’re early in this new, what I call, scalable listening technologies that we need to tailor‑make it to each different specific policy issues.
>Advances in statistics (often associated with AI) make it possible “broad listening”, where millions of people can hear the distilled essence of the distribution of opinion of their peers, empowering democratic deliberation at scale.
>Advances in statistics (often associated with AI) make it possible “broad listening”, where millions of people can hear the distilled essence of the distribution of opinion of their peers, empowering democratic deliberation at scale.