Enhancing Online Deliberation Through AI-Driven Counter-Attitudinal Interventions: Direct and Indirect Effects on Users’ Perceptions and Behavior
This study tests whether an AI-based counter-attitudinal comment recommender (AI-CAR) enhances participants’ subjective deliberative experiences and reduces incivility by restructuring the visibility of dissenting viewpoints. We analyzed three-wave data from 827 participants in a 10-day simulated digital citizens’ coun...