[ 06 / RESEARCH ]
Other waysof asking.
Collective deliberation. Long futures.
Messages beyond ourselves.
Twenty-four projects, with different purposes.
PROJECTS
This is a map of approaches, not a leaderboard. Institutions, tools, past experiments, and historical messages cannot be judged as if they were one kind of product.
Our principles[ PROJECT LIBRARY ]
SOURCE REVIEW / 28 SEP 2026- PURPOSE
- Make opinion groups and common ground visible.
- PARTICIPATION
- Write statements; agree, disagree or pass.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Cluster voting patterns and identify cross-group support.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Exports and open analysis code; full semantic lineage not verified.
Dynamic sessions were not tested. Agreement is not a truth score.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Connect public deliberation with policy discussions.
- PARTICIPATION
- Citizens, government, experts and affected groups.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Proposal, opinion, reflection and legislation stages.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Case pages link opinions, meetings and policy records.
A past schedule does not establish that meetings still occur in 2026.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Help groups understand many individual voices.
- PARTICIPATION
- Surveys, interviews and existing response collections.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Organize transcripts into themes with original statements.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Documented response IDs, speakers and video timestamps.
Source links do not by themselves prove every summary is faithful.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Collect open responses and group evaluations for research.
- PARTICIPATION
- Participants respond and evaluate others’ answers.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Combine observed evaluations with modeled agreement.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Documented citations to responses, votes and statistics.
Paid sessions were not tested. Observed and predicted agreement differ.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Collect ideas while comparing public preferences.
- PARTICIPATION
- Choose between pairs or add another idea.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Pairwise wiki surveys with expanding alternatives.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Raw-data export and published methods.
A 2024 migration notice describes separate systems and no automatic data transfer.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Support participatory and accountable governance.
- PARTICIPATION
- Proposals, amendments, debates, votes and meetings.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Connect participatory processes with results and milestones.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Accountability records link results to proposals and revisions.
Actual features and public records depend on instance configuration.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Support civic participation in public institutions.
- PARTICIPATION
- Debate, propose, vote and contribute to budgets.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Supported proposals advance through configured stages.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Attachments and related proposals; complete revision lineage unverified.
Demo content is not evidence of real civic participation.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Study informed public judgment through discussion.
- PARTICIPATION
- Participants deliberate in small video groups.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Timed agendas, speaking queues and automated facilitation.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Briefing materials, questionnaires and research data paths.
Use figures are operator reports, not an independent performance audit.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Bring citizen deliberation to shared global challenges.
- PARTICIPATION
- Selected assemblies and community discussions.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Learning, deliberation and proposals become public reports.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Community feedback connects to reports; per-statement lineage unverified.
The 2021 project and subsequent assemblies have distinct contexts.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Make arguments and counterarguments navigable.
- PARTICIPATION
- Write, evaluate and connect claims.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Branch supporting and opposing arguments from a thesis.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Edu documents claim sources, links, review and export.
Edu features should not be assumed identical in every Kialo product.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Maintain a collaborative multilingual knowledge base.
- PARTICIPATION
- People and bots edit statements and references.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Structure items, properties, values and relations.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Statement references, identifiers, revision history and permanent links.
A referenced statement is not automatically a verified statement.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Aggregate probabilistic forecasts of resolvable events.
- PARTICIPATION
- Propose questions, forecast and discuss.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Specify definitions, deadlines and resolution criteria.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Question-writing guidance requires sources and change notices.
Forecast accuracy and source reliability require separate assessment.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Build a culture of long-term responsibility.
- PARTICIPATION
- Talks, publications, membership and public programs.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Sustain large questions through essays and long-duration projects.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Dated talks, speakers and episode archives.
Program activity does not establish completion of the 10,000 Year Clock.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Reduce extreme risks from powerful technologies.
- PARTICIPATION
- Research, policy programs, education and grants.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Translate broad issues into programs and future scenarios.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Author, program, research and policy-document links.
Institutional policy positions are not the views of every participant.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Help people use possible futures in present choices.
- PARTICIPATION
- Training, workshops and collaborative foresight projects.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Extend and challenge scenario ideas in connected conversations.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Legacy game records and project reports; full histories unverified.
Historical forecasting games are not confirmed as continuously available.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Studied large questions about humanity’s long-term future.
- PARTICIPATION
- Selected researchers and academic collaborators.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Formalized questions as research agendas and papers.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Authors, report numbers, publications and a final report.
A research legacy and archive, not a currently operating institute.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Use AI to study animal communication.
- PARTICIPATION
- Research partners, open tools and community programs.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Connect observed communication with models and research questions.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Annual reports link papers, models, tools and collaborators.
A research vision does not establish universal animal translation.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Understand sperm-whale communication and support conservation.
- PARTICIPATION
- Researchers, Dominican fellows and local education.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Collect context, build interpretations and test understanding.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Research stages, team responsibilities and fellowship records.
Not a completed real-time whale translation service.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Study life and intelligence in the universe.
- PARTICIPATION
- Research, education, arts and public programs.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Turn a large question into observable scientific subproblems.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Researchers, projects, reports and discovery-verification guidance.
Research activity is not evidence of extraterrestrial contact.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Explore messages for intelligence without a shared language.
- PARTICIPATION
- Selected artists and a historical public contribution process.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Design messages together with decoding context.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Partner archives document content and 2017–2018 transmissions.
Transmission records establish neither reception nor understanding.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Carry a selected record of life and culture from Earth.
- PARTICIPATION
- Content selected by a committee led by Carl Sagan.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Curate images, sound, music and greetings with decoding instructions.
- SOURCE TRACE
- NASA records content categories, selection and production history.
A historical curation, not a mandate from all humans or a confirmed reception.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Care for unpublished manuscripts for readers in 2114.
- PARTICIPATION
- Invited authors; public visits, events and support.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Preserve contributions while deliberately delaying publication.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Authors, contribution years, trustees and storage responsibilities.
An active long-term project does not guarantee survival until 2114.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Test how public preferences can inform model principles.
- PARTICIPATION
- A study involving roughly 1,000 US adults using Polis.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Move from proposals and ratings through editorial selection to training.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Published principles, methods, comparisons and limitations.
A bounded study sample, not humanity’s consensus or a current public voting service.
Official source- PURPOSE
- Study AI-mediated statements of common ground.
- PARTICIPATION
- Research participants contribute opinions, ratings and critiques.
- QUESTION HANDLING
- Generate candidate statements, evaluate them and revise.
- SOURCE TRACE
- Paper, evaluation data and an official prompt implementation.
The prompt implementation differs from the trained research model; no ongoing public service was verified.
Official sourceBased on the linked public sources. Descriptions do not establish current availability, performance, or independent verification of a project’s claims. Status qualifications are part of each record.
[ METHODS & GOVERNANCE ]
What the press
must preserve.
The quality of one sentence begins with the responsibilities around it.
CURRENT STATE / PROTOTYPEOne direction. Open alternatives.
The project pursues one carefully reviewed question. No candidate is currently adopted. A clear pursuit does not establish the right to represent humanity.
An original is never a draft of its summary.
Original words, context, needs, and permitted uses remain distinct from interpretations. A source link proves traceability; it does not prove that the source’s meaning survived.
Loss is part of the result.
Preserved, transformed, omitted, and contested needs must remain visible. Compression can be declined. Unresolved questions deserve a place in the archive.
A role is a responsibility.
The six roles define an accountable review process. They are not running agents in this prototype. Several roles using the same model would not establish independent agreement.
Authorization has a scope.
Saving a question in this browser does not authorize publishing, model training, external model calls, or future delivery. A future shared archive will need its own explicit permission system.
An answer must return to a need.
The project must distinguish delivery, receipt, comprehension, and response. An answer’s factual accuracy, a person’s satisfaction, and coverage of a need are separate questions.
[ THE MISSING VOICES ]
An empty space
is still a responsibility.
The public Atlas currently contains 240 AI-written examples and no verified participant submissions. They do not represent a population, a language community, a child, an animal, or a future person.
No participant recruitment or representative sampling has taken place.
Unrecorded lives and nonhuman experience cannot be recovered by generating plausible words.
Missing perspectives stay visible. Invented examples never count as evidence that a gap has been filled.
One question is the pursuit.
Accountability is the method.