# Scaling Dialogue for Democracy: Can Automated Deliberation Create More Deliberative Voters?

Status: published
Visibility: public-pdf
Authors: with James Fishkin, Valentin Bolotnyy, Alice Siu, and Norman Bradburn
Venue: Perspectives on Politics
Year: 2025
DOI: 10.1017/S1537592724001749
Canonical URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592724001749

## Summary

Built around a large online deliberation experiment with AI-assisted moderation and a follow-up during the 2022 midterms, this paper asks whether deliberation can be scaled without losing its civic effects. Participants became more attentive to campaigns, more politically knowledgeable, and more likely to connect their eventual vote choices to considered policy views. The argument is that organized automated discussion can create more deliberative voters, even outside the face-to-face mini-public format.

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