NSF SBIR Funded

Research

Advancing the science of thinking through rigorous research.

Research Areas

AI-Powered Debate

Developing AI systems that can engage in authentic debate and help humans improve their argumentation skills.

Dialogical Assessment

Creating valid and reliable assessments through dialogue that can't be gamed by AI tools.

AI Pluralism

Researching how diverse AI perspectives can enable genuine dialectical exchange.

Educational AI

Investigating how AI can enhance rather than replace human learning and critical thinking.

Publications

Augmented Debate-Centered Instruction: A Novel Research Agenda for Responsible AI Integration in Education

Stefan Bauschard, Alan Coverstone, Devin Gonier, John Hines, P. Anand Rao

AAAI Conference on AI (AI for Education Workshop), 2024

This paper presents a research agenda for responsibly integrating AI into debate-centered educational practice, focusing on augmenting rather than replacing human critical thinking and argumentation skills.

AIeducationdebatecritical thinkinghuman-AI collaboration

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Featured Book

AI Pluralism: Fostering Diversity and Dialogue in Artificial Intelligence

Edited by P. Anand Rao

Springer Nature Switzerland · March 2026 · ISBN: 978-3-032-06557-5

This comprehensive volume explores how diverse AI perspectives can enable genuine dialectical exchange, examining the intersection of AI, debate, and critical thinking.

Learn more at ai-pluralism.com

Funded by the National Science Foundation

Our research is supported by an NSF SBIR Phase I grant, validating the importance of our work in advancing AI and education.

$300K

Phase I Funding

Phase I

SBIR Award

University Partners