Facilitation in the AI Era

A collaboration between Jigsaw and 22 global facilitators

We identify five untapped, high-value opportunities for AI to support facilitators: by scaling access, offering dynamic learning, generating live synthesis and sensemaking, helping with futurecasting, and improving public sensemaking outputs. All opportunities should be explored in partnership with facilitators and publics, to build trust in the technology and ensure that it augments the transformational experience of deliberation, rather than replacing it.