Can an AI Analyze Arguments? Argument-Checking and the Challenges of Assessing the Quality of Online Information

Ruben Brave, Federica Russo, Ondrej Uzovic, and Jean Wagemans contributed a chapter to the volume AI and Society edited by Christo El Morr.

Abstract

In this chapter, we present and discuss an ongoing project to develop a glass-box AI engine, KRINO (from Greek: to judge, criticize, and reason), capable of parsing written text at the discourse level and analyzing the arguments thereby contained. KRINO is designed to assist users with argument-checking, i.e., the process of evaluating the quality of arguments. We describe the setup and basic characteristics of KRINO and explain how it can assist human annotators in a project undertaken by the Dutch organization Internet Society Netherlands Make Media Great Again Working Group (shortened as MMGA), which aims to improve the quality of online information across settings ranging from online news outlets to social media. The joint project is motivated by the challenges posed by online information and the need to empower internet users to better analyze its contents. We explain the prospects and challenges of integrating the KRINO and MMGA projects for argument checking and discuss the societal and computational relevance of this integration.

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