in-cyprus15 Jun 2026

A sandpaper for democracy

More and deeper democracy means a greater capacity to manage our disagreements. Technology should help us live with them — not make them disappear.

In his final years, the philosopher and theorist of the public sphere Jürgen Habermas — who died last March at a great age — must have been deeply uneasy watching Google DeepMind introduce what it called the “Habermas Machine” in 2024. It is an experimental AI system designed to help groups of citizens arrive at shared formulations and points of...

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