Deliberate Lab: A Platform for Real-Time Human-AI Social Experiments

Authors: C Qian, V Tsai, M Behr, N Hussein, L Laugier, N Thain, L Dixon

Published: 2025

Publication: ArXiv

Deliberate Lab is an open-source platform designed to enable real-time, multi-user human and AI (LLM) experiments. Developed by DeepMind researchers, it supports synchronous interaction, custom experimental stages, and integrates with platforms like Prolific for streamlined participant recruitment and payment. The system has been successfully used in over 600 experiments with more than 9,000 participants.

Institution: Google, Google DeepMind, EPFL

Research Area: Human-AI Interaction, Social Experiments, Platform Design

Discipline: Computational Social Science

Citations: 1