How America's 250th birthday became a test of AI-powered collective intelligence
THE SO WHAT
AI-mediated deliberation is moving from lab demos into live, high-stakes civic experiments—treat this as a proving ground for whether models can reliably surface group preferences rather than amplify the loudest voices. If you're building decision-support tools, the bar is shifting from individual productivity to measurable group outcomes and legitimacy.
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