We are excited to welcome invited speaker Andreas Vlachos!

We are excited to welcome Andreas Vlachos for his invited talk Towards Constructive Conversations!

ABSTRACT
In this talk I will present our work motivated by the question “What makes conversations among humans more constructive and how can we intervene to make them happen”. First I will discuss group decision-making in the context of the Wason Card Selection task, where we find that groups perform better than individuals, and, more interestingly, can reach a correct decision even if no one had it in the beginning of the conversation. Following this, I will present the Wikipedia disputes dataset which has allowed us to examine how disagreements are resolved in the context of Wikipedia, the most successful large-scale collaborative project. Finally, I will discuss how LLMs could be used to intervene to improve our conversations.