Well, I think the only thing one needs for this kind of broad listening is to have a committed listening partner that agrees to respond point-by-point to the results summarized by a language model, in any particular polity. In Bowling Green, Kentucky, they got local developers, museum curators, and so on to say that if the entire community—despite the apparent polarization in the U.S.—manages to agree on the future of Bowling Green in 2050, then they commit to a point-by-point response and will act based on the “uncommon ground” built by this technology.

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