[pavlov]

Is there really a shortage of this kind of analysis today?

Using those legal mechanisms requires money and often public support. The LLM can’t conjure either.

The world is already full of smart people and good ideas about policy. The reason they’re not getting implemented probably has little to do with things that AI can solve today. For starters, a lot of voters actively dislike policy suggestions from experts and choose politicians who proudly go against expert opinion. Giving AI tools to the experts won’t change that.

[thisiswater]

I think the difference is that instead of deferring to an expert's opinion, you can interact with a knowledge machine which can explore the topic in and on your terms, answer your questions about it, respond to your points and concerns about those responses, etc.

It's a fundamentally different kind of knowledge generation than reading an expert opinion - it's branching, self-directed, and responsive.

[aussiegreenie]

This excatly the kind of work Universities love.

I personally know three different group trying to excatly that.