Metagov x Future of Science Seminar: Interoperable LLM- and Human-Centered Research with Discourse Graphs

Abstract: ​In the age of AI, a new medium for scientific communication is necessary for scientific research to remain collaborative, trustworthy, and mutually human/machine readable.

We created lab discourse graphs, a protocol and application for modular, attributable, and interoperable scientific research. Discourse graphs allow researchers to structure their ongoing research into atomic elements - questions, claims, and evidence - and connect them in an evolving shared graph.

Our cell biology lab at the University of Washington shares a lab discourse graph as a graph-based lab notebook, project tracker, meetings record, literature parser, and scientific story compilation board. An ongoing pilot with 10 labs has demonstrated that our open-source Roam Research and Obsidian plugins help researchers think like a scientist, remain oriented to their target question/hypothesis, and make modular contributions to shared research projects. Modular attribution of interoperable research results will allow human and AI researchers to contribute to large-scale collaborations, while retaining agency, through shared reasoning across an evolving, auditable, and attributable knowledge base.

game theoryhuman-computer interactionsocial and information networkslaw and economics

Audience: researchers in the discipline

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Metagovernance Seminar

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The Metagovernance Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Topics of the seminar include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.

See archived videos: archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Metagovernance%20Seminar%22

The seminar is intended for researchers and practitioners in online governance, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public, but please note that the discussion is moderated. Our governance structure is defined here: metagov.pubpub.org/metagov-governance

Please contact a planning committee member (Nathan Schneider, Divya Siddarth, Michael Zargham, Joshua Tan, and Seth Frey) if you are interested in becoming a member of the seminar.

Where available, a direct link to the archived video is linked beneath the video tags.

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- Time: every Wednesday at 12:00pm ET (GMT-4). - Meeting Link: us06web.zoom.us/j/89433841305?pwd=lIX1rkSiVfqDd7hwwTUppQS8kDmbno.1

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