Computational Deliberation: Founding _a New Discipline_ in AI Governance _and Human-AI Symposia_

This paper introduces Computational Deliberation, a new discipline at the intersection of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and governance. The framework reconceives deliberation not merely as an exchange of arguments but as a structured epistemic process involving both human and AI participants. Through the architecture of SymposAI, the paper formalizes a system of governed personas, orchestrated debate, and consensus mechanisms that ensure deliberation is transparent, accountable, and explainable. Philosophically, Computational Deliberation advances a normative theory of decision-making that is auditable and resistant to epistemic bias, while also proposing a practical mechanism for AI-human symposia as a scalable form of collective intelligence. It situates this emerging science within traditions of deliberative democracy, epistemic governance, and computational logic, while extending them toward a global, virtual research paradigm for the governance of AI and high-stakes human decision systems.