  The advent of LLMs means that CUIs are cool again, but what isn't so cool is
that we're doomed to use them alone. The one user, one account, one device
paradigm has dominated the design of CUIs and is not going away as new
conversational technologies emerge. In this provocation we explore some of the
technical, legal, and design difficulties that seem to make multi-user CUIs so
difficult to implement. Drawing inspiration from the ways that people manage
messy group discussions, such as parliamentary and consensus-based paradigms,
we show how LLM-based CUIs might be well suited to bridging the gap. With any
luck, this might even result in everyone having to sit through fewer poorly run
meetings and agonising group discussions - truly a laudable goal!
