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Luke Thorburn

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Algorithms ∩ Conflict • PhD candidate • King's College London • lukethorburn.com

Luke Thorburn @lukethorburn.com · 30/06/2025

🔔 Often our tech policy interventions operate from linear, top-down assumptions that don't account for the complexity they seek to govern. To dig into this I'm co-organizing a workshop at ACM CI 2025 with Jason Burton, Joe Bak-Coleman, + Naomi Shiffman. You should come! ci-x-tp.github.io

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Luke Thorburn @lukethorburn.com · 04/03/2025

🔔 (new paper!) You might have heard of the "Habermas Machine", an AI-human pipeline that is really good at finding common ground between ideologically diverse groups, at least in lab settings. But can this kind of approach help in real world conflicts?

A diagram of the process used in the paper that this thread announces. The effort consisted of four dialogue cycles with peacebuilders: three uninational dialogues cycles conducted respectively with
Israeli Jews, Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, and Palestinian citizens of Israel, followed by a final joint dialogue involving
all three groups. Each dialogue cycle involved a process to find common ground among participants followed by a deliberation on the
results of that process. The common ground process started with a collective dialogue, then bridging-based ranking was used to
identify common ground ’bridging statements’ that were distilled into articulate ’collective statements’ via LLM and reviewed by
human experts before being shared back with participants for a final vote.

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Luke Thorburn @lukethorburn.com · 17/01/2024

The relationship between unhappiness and the Trump vote in 2016. From: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

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