Hyperdemocracy: Large-Scale Consensus Support Platfrom Based on Social Multiagent Systems

The rapid development of AI, smartphones, and the Internet, as well as the recent changes in the environment caused by COVID-19, have made the realization of AI-powered social systems more and more realistic. We envision the Hyperdemocary Platform, a social network that supports software agents and humans to participate, discuss, and make a collaborative, democratic consensus. Specifically, multiple agents will be stationed in social networks as the platform of democracy, act with humans, mediate decisions and interactions, and support enhanced and scalable consensus-building and collective decision-making. In particular, while collecting opinions and preferences, software agents are attentive to the emotions of the participants and help them to reach a consensus that is both proactive and satisfying efficiently. In other words, the system solves the trade-off between proactive and satisfied consensus building by humans and super-efficient and super-rational consensus building by software agents. Social problems such as flaming, fake news, group polarization, and gerrymandering have been widely reported in the SNS. Our agents will solve these problems by collaborating with humans within the platform. In this talk, I will introduce some results of our recent work.