Report: Mapping LLM Tools for Public Discourse, Pluralism & Social Cohesion
Announcing a map produced by participants in the LLMs for Public Discourse convening
In early 2025, more than seventy researchers and technologists were convened by Plurality Institute and the the Council on Technology & Social Cohesion to share how they were leveraging LLMs to foster public discourse - and to imagine new LLM tools that could strengthen pluralism and social cohesion in our digital spaces.
As part of that convening and as led by PDN, participants collectively built a map of existing LLM tools in order to reveal what work is being done and where opportunities lie - and to ultimately inspire researchers, technologists and philanthropists to explore new ways to create LLMs for public discourse.
That map is now published in a report "Mapping LLM Tools for Public Discourse, Pluralism & Social Cohesion", which includes insights from its co-authors, nine participants in the convening. The report comes with a companion dataset that we encourage you to explore - and add on to if you have built or know of an LLM tool that fosters public discourse.
PDN was honored to be part of this momentous event and to lead the mapping project. We are enormously grateful to all the co-authors - Matt DeVerna, David J. Grüning, Jen Hickey, Adnan Jaber, Julia Kamin, Brendan A. Miller, Rehan Mirza, Jiaxin Pei, and Victoria Stanski - for their work in bringing the report together.
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