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Israel has been launching major airstrikes on Lebanon for the past month. According to the Lebanese authorities, the strikes have killed more than 2,000 civilians and displaced over 1 million. The Israeli army has also killed several Hezbollah leaders, aiming to weaken the Iran-backed Shiite political party and militant group, which is based in southern Lebanon. The US, […]
Researchers from Google DeepMind recently trained a system of large language models to help people come to agreement over complex but important social or political issues. The AI model was trained to identify and present areas where people’s ideas overlapped. With the help of this AI mediator, small groups of study participants became less divided […]