AI & Deliberation

Can generative AI improve public discourse and democratic participation?

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) opens up new opportunities to support and improve democratic processes and deliberation. But how can we harness this potential in concrete terms?

At the AI & Deliberation workshop, we want to approach this question in a practical way by presenting and discussing concrete tools and implementation approaches. Together, we want to learn about LLM-based applications that are useful for deliberative processes and discuss the opportunities they offer and their limitations.

The workshop promotes networking and knowledge transfer: by bringing in different perspectives, we want to learn from each other, exchange experiences and gain inspiration for new projects.

The workshop is aimed at researchers and practitioners:

Research & Science

• Deliberation, discourse and argumentation research
• Political science
• AI community

Practice & Civil Society

• Organisations that develop or want to develop LLM-based deliberation tools
• Organisations that use and operate such tools in their civil society work

The following tools are presented and discussed:

• ReasonAide: An AI tool to support argumentative processes in deliberative settings.
• INDI DiscussBot Demo: An AI assistant for reformulating discussion contributions from the IndI project. Formulations are analysed and improved in terms of politeness, argumentative quality, empathy and factuality.
• VISAR: An AI writing assistant for formulating and revising discussion contributions. VISAR enables users to explore, test and validate their argumentative goals with the help of automatic draft prototypes.
• PolicyCraft: An LLM-based system for simulating political negotiation processes and policy development.
• TITAN Chatbot: An approach that combines Socratic questions with AI-supported dialogues to promote critical reflection and argumentative thinking.

• When: 13 November 2025, 2–7 p.m. & 14 November 2025, 9 a.m.–2 p.m.
• Where: Prinzessinnenstudio, Prinzessinnenstr. 16, 10969 Berlin
• Language: German / English
• Registration: [email protected] Participation is free of charge. However, registration is required (limited number of participants for on-site participation). Hybrid/online participation is possible.

• Learn about the latest tools and prototypes
• Network with experts from research and civil society
• Discuss practical applications
• Help shape the use of AI in a democratic context
• Gain inspiration for new projects and collaborations