LLMs for Civic Engagement
Researched LLM infrastructure for the Agora Citizen Network, a privacy-conscious, open-source platform for depolarizing political discussions.
Evaluated different LLMs to understand cost-performance tradeoffs and use-case suitability, and engineered prompts to generate clear summaries, topic labels, and group descriptors - helping participants understand where people agree, disagree, and why. These improvements aimed to make large-scale public dialogue more transparent and accessible.
The screenshot below shows opinion clusters from a discussion on Agora, using the Pol.is algorithm, annotated with LLM-generated group labels.
