Agora: Teaching the Skill of Consensus-Finding with AI Personas Grounded in Human Voice

arXiv:2603.07339v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deliberative democratic theory suggests that civic competence: the capacity to navigate disagreement, weigh competing values, and arrive at collective decisions is not innate but developed through practice. Yet opportunities to cultivate these skills remain limited, as traditional deliberative processes like citizens' assemblies reach only a small fraction of the population. We present Agora, an AI-powered platform that uses LLMs to organ