Swiss AI Futures

I am running two citizen assemblies in Zurich and Lausanne and testing how AI-supported deliberation can connect two scales of participation. On one side, there is a maxi-public: broad online input from people across the country. On the other, there are mini-public workshops: smaller, representative groups that can sit with the hard tradeoffs in more depth.

We want to explore how AI can facilitate the feedback loop between the two. Online contributions surface fears, hopes, and questions that might otherwise stay scattered. The in-person groups then work through those themes carefully, refine them, and help turn them into something policy-makers can actually use. The final report will inform TA-SWISS, the Swiss Parliament, and national conversations around AI policy, work, and education.

The project is led by a Swiss research consortium and supported by TA-SWISS, the Swiss Foundation for Technology Assessment, with partners including ETH Zurich, University of Zurich, University of St.Gallen, LUT University, and University of Lausanne.