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