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Radio Duna interviewed Cristian Candia about Discolab's constitutional explorer

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Radio Duna interviewed Cristian Candia about Discolab and the UDD constitutional explorer.

The interview discussed how AI-assisted summaries, comparisons, and source-linked references can help citizens engage with complex constitutional texts using more accessible language.

Discolab and AI for constitutional understanding

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Discolab started from a simple premise: complex documents become more useful when people can read, compare, annotate, discuss, and rank them collectively.

During Chile’s constitutional process, the platform used AI-assisted search, summaries, comparison, and paragraph-level discussion to help citizens understand the proposed constitutional text in relation to previous texts and the current Constitution.

The platform connects three CRiSS-LAB interests. First, collective intelligence: comments, votes, and rankings reveal where groups agree, disagree, or need more information. Second, information accessibility: AI can reduce the cost of navigating complex legal documents when outputs remain linked to sources. Third, civic deliberation: public debate improves when participants can inspect evidence and compare interpretations.

Discolab also informs broader work on organizational learning, public consultation, and systems that help communities transform distributed knowledge into auditable collective understanding.

Coverage from UDD and La Tercera is available in News & Media.

Discolab and La Tercera launched AI-assisted constitutional explorer

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

CRiSS-LAB, Universidad del Desarrollo, La Tercera, and partners launched Discolab, an AI-assisted platform for understanding and comparing constitutional texts in Chile.

The tool simplified search, summaries, comparisons, source-linked references, discussion, voting, and rankings around the constitutional proposal, helping citizens engage with complex public information in a more accessible way.

The initiative is part of CRiSS-LAB’s broader work on collective intelligence, civic technology, deliberation, and AI-assisted public understanding.

Additional coverage: La Tercera and Radio Duna.

UDD launched Discolab for collaborative understanding of complex texts

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Universidad del Desarrollo announced the launch of Discolab, a collaborative reading, annotation, and deliberation platform created by Cristian Candia-Castro.

The launch positioned Discolab as a tool for improving the understanding of complex texts through comments, votes, rankings, consensus signals, and controversy detection.