A million people, a million personal AIs, three base models. Is that a diverse deliberation — and how would you measure it?
Summary
A critical reflection on whether using only three base models for millions of personal AI agents can produce genuinely diverse deliberation, arguing that correlated errors across models may create false unanimity and seeking operational metrics—drawn from ensemble learning—to measure true human representational diversity.
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