An unprecedented 80 percent of Americans believe the country is deeply divided over its most important values ahead of the November election, according to a recent Gallup poll. The polarization of the general public now includes issues like immigration, health care, identity politics, transgender rights, or whether we should support Ukraine. Fly across the Atlantic Ocean and you'll see the same thing happening in the European Union and Britain.
To reverse this trend, Google's DeepMind has built an AI system designed to help people resolve conflicts. It is called the Habermas Machine, after Jürgen Habermas, a German philosopher who argued that agreement in the public sphere can always be achieved when rational people engage in discussions as equals, with mutual respect and perfect communication.
But is DeepMind's Nobel Prize-winning ingenuity really enough to solve our political conflicts the same way they solved chess or chess? StarCraft or predicting protein structures? Is it the right tool?
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