Consensus AI is a not-for-profit subsidiary of Sustensis – a Think Tank on Humanity’s Transition to Coexistence with Superintelligence. It was set up to support a new style of debates and decision making, e.g. for Citizens’ Assemblies. To achieve that, we have created AI-enabled Consensual Debating methodology where participants can debate not just politics, but any subject.
The debates are supported by the most advanced Artificial Intelligence Assistant – GPT4 o1. It allows even thousands of participants to debate remotely any topic simultaneously and come to an agreement in a consensual way much faster. The debates can be organized for ‘in person’ participation, online, where participants can debate and cast their votes at their convenient time, or as a ZOOM event.
We have integrated our methodology for conducting Consensual Debates with POLIS voting system and AI Assistant, which greatly speeds up such debates and makes them much more effective. That differs fundamentally from a typical on-line voting like YouGov, where participants can only vote one on one motion or decisions. In Consensual Debating participants arrive at a consensus gradually on a number of individual statements, voting many times until at least 60% majority on a final decision has been reached. To participate in a debate you need to Register or Login.
The Consensual Debating tab provides basic information on what is Consensual Debating. To make it easier to understand how it works we have created a case study project debating the extention of the Ultra Low Emission Zone to outer London. It shows how our methodology can be applied with the support of Consensus AI Assistant. There are several other projects in various stages of advancement, which are hidden to protect customer’s identity and the projects’ data (see the Services tab).
We offered Consensual Debating support for the Conference on the Future of Europe, which ended on 9th May 2022. Most of the 90 topics of that Conference were aligned with 9 main topics related to improving democracy in the EU. It can be viewed on another Sustensis subsidiary website Euro Agora, which was specially created to support the domain of ‘Democracy reform of the EU’ covering topics such as: Values and Responsibilities, Consensual Presidential Democracy, Citizens Assemblies, Federalism or Constitution. We have provided 9 proposals, of which the proposal on the EU’s Citizens’ Senate was in large part included into the final report. You can read more about how Consensual Debating works here.
Consensus AI facilitates any debate as accurately as possible. However, we take no responsibility for the accuracy of the data, its processing, nor for any omissions and misinterpretation of information provided by our team or by ChatGPT Assistant.
(There is a new book “2030- Towards the Big Consensus“ by Tony Czarnecki, the author of Consensual Debating methodology. It explains why we need Consensual Debating and what implication it may have if widely applied.)
