A new design and evaluation ecosystem for good human-AI decision-making in administrative government.

What will be the processes, values and criteria for good decisions by public authorities?

Through four connected projects, the Future of Good Decisions is working across disciplines, using creative methods to identify the most promising value concepts, decision practices, system design and legal frameworks.

  • What qualities of ‘good decisions’ are emerging in contemporary philosophies of evolving technosocial ecologies? How can we talk about better and worse decisions given complex interactions of multiple human and machine agencies?

  • New thinking about sources of normativity and value in the administrative state, in a holistic, more than human political ecology with technical, biological and social dimensions.

  • Translating leading approaches to critical and ethical AI system design, for a new deliberative and participatory approach to administrative decisions and their legal review.

  • Using Live Action Role Play (LARP) to prefigure and reflect on future models for the participatory co-design of ‘good decisions’, drawing on diverse disciplines, sectors and expertise.

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New book series: Econormativites (Routledge)
New book series: Econormativites (Routledge)

Major news this week, as we announce the creation of a new book series with Routledge: Econormativities. The series editors are Dr Connal Parsley (Kent), Dr Conor Heaney (Kent), Professor Margaret Davies (Flinders), and Professor Scott Veitch (Hong Kong).

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Visit to Stockholm University of the Arts 22.04.26
Visit to Stockholm University of the Arts 22.04.26

This week the Future of Good Decisions project had the pleasure of visiting SKH, Stockholm University of the Arts, hosted by Petra Bauer and Paola Torres Núñez del Prado. Connal Parsley and Paola Torres Núñez del Prado gave a seminar on “The Textures of Value: Creative Research, Technical Mediation, and Econormativity in the 'Age of AI'".

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Join the participatory system co-design LARP
Join the participatory system co-design LARP

What would it look like if governments opened up the design of public-facing human-AI decision systems to a participatory co-design process Come and find out! Join us as a participant in "Methexis Park", the upcoming Live Action Role Play for the Future of Good Decisions project!

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Manchester People’s Panels for AI
Manchester People’s Panels for AI

This week we were lucky to have the opportunity to visit Manchester Metropolitan University to observe one of their People’s Panels for AI – hosted by the estimable Professor Keeley Crockett and Dr Annabel Latham.

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LARP

Live Action Role Play (LARP) as a Research Method

One of the distinctive tools in this project is Live Action Role Play — LARP. Rather than traditional workshops or simulations, LARP creates immersive, improvisational spaces where participants embody characters to explore what future human-AI decision-making could look and feel like.

In government contexts, where institutional norms and risk-aversion can constrain creative thinking, LARP opens up space to prefigure new systems, surface unexpected values, and surface tensions that more conventional methods miss. The Future of Good Decisions is using LARP to experiment with participatory co-design of algorithmic systems — asking who gets a seat at the table, and what "good" decisions might actually mean in practice.

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