@anon3102619 , I’ve also thought about these topics as well as computer-aided forum moderation, equipping human moderators with AI tools.
Also, beyond scientific forums, we could consider enhancing civics-related forums – those forums which might be hosted by a town or city, county, state, or federal government or a related public-sector organization.
In these regards, in addition to enhancing participation in the crafting of and reacting to public policy proposals, and exploring participatory budgeting, there is strengthening community (e.g., town- and city-scale communities).
Along these lines, I’ve also been more recently thinking about advancing and integrating “calendar synchronization” features, so that community members could have calendaring-based apps for physical, virtual, and hybrid events, so that they could more easily be aware of upcoming events to then be able to attend the events around their towns and cities.
In addition to scientific and civics forums, there are: (1) the forums and discussion areas on wiki platforms to think about integrating AI systems into, and (2) discussion areas for software projects (e.g., GitHub).
@damianpoirier , that’s a good idea to explore some sort of recommender systems which would watch for developments on forums and which could email or instant-message participants about ones which would interest them.