>Polis is a platform that leverages machine intelligence to scale up deliberative processes. In this paper, we explore the opportunities and risks associated with applying Large Language Models (LLMs) towards challenges with facilitating, moderating and summarizing the results of Polis engagements. In particular, we demonstrate with pilot experiments using Anthropic's Claude that LLMs can indeed augment human intelligence to help more efficiently run Polis conversations. In particular, we find that summarization capabilities enable categorically new methods with immense promise to empower the public in collective meaning-making exercises. And notably, LLM context limitations have a significant impact on insight and quality of these results. However, these opportunities come with risks. We discuss some of these risks, as well as principles and techniques for characterizing and mitigating them, and the implications for other deliberative or political systems that may employ LLMs. Finally, we conclude with several open future research directions for augmenting tools like Polis with LLMs.

>h_okumura このPolisって西尾さん がよく言ってるやつ？

>nishio そうです、著者所属のThe Computational Democracy Projectがこれです。面白そうな論文ですね！

>The Computational Democracy Project | The Computational Democracy Project

>The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers and maintains Polis, an open source, real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

>nishio LLMとPolisの関係についてAnthropicからも論文が出たそうで、どんどん面白くなってきました！

>nishio 次のLLM meetupの段階では今やってることが話せる状態になるかならないか微妙だなー何を話そうーと思ってたけど、この論文とOpenAIの書いたものとを引用しつつ話せることを話すのでもLTとしては十分な気がするな。前回もLTでPolisに言及したことだし、それの発展という感じで。