Columbia tries using AI to cool off student tensions

Can AI assistance "smooth over" treatment connected abortion, racism, immigration, oregon Israel-Palestine? Columbia University definite hopes so.

The Verge has learned that the assemblage precocious began investigating Sway, an AI statement programme presently successful beta. Developed by 2 researchers astatine Carnegie Mellon University, Sway matches up students with opposing views to chat one-on-one astir hot-button issues and "facilitates amended discussions betwixt them," according to the tool's website. Nicholas DiBella, a postdoctoral student astatine CMU who helped make Sway, told The Verge that astir 3,000 students from much than 30 colleges and universities person utilized the tool. …

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