Artificial intelligence could help reduce some of the most contentious culture war divisions through a mediation process, researchers claim. Experts say a system that can create group statements that reflect majority and minority views is able to help people find common ground. Prof Chris Summerfield, a co-author of the research from the University of Oxford, who worked at Google DeepMind at the time the study was conducted, said the AI tool could have multiple purposes. "What I would like to see it used for is to give political leaders in the UK a better sense of what people in the UK really think," he said, noting surveys gave only limited insights, while forums known as citizens' assemblies were often costly, logistically challenging and restricted in size. Writing in the journal Science, Summerfield and colleagues from Google DeepMind report how they built the "Habermas Machine" – an AI system named after the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas. The system works by taking written views of individuals within a group and using them to generate a set of group statements designed to be acceptable to all.