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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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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LARPing Decision Design Agency: Design meeting 19/11
LARPing Decision Design Agency: Design meeting 19/11

This week we reached a milestone in the development of the major Live Action Role Play event that will be held online and in person in March-June 2026. We have at last decided what kind of administrative decision our fictional decision system – which will be designed by LARPing a participatory co-design process – will be tasked with making! This leap forward was made possible through the Research Direction Collective who welcomed Dr Alexandra Sinclair (Sydney) to the process.

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LARP and Smart Environments: a conversation with Lynne Falconer
LARP and Smart Environments: a conversation with Lynne Falconer

The participatory system co-design LARP we are currently developing will be set in a sensor-enabled ‘smart environment’. We wanted to find out more about these contexts and their challenges, so we met with Lynne Falconer (Stirling) for a fascinating chat about her research on smart aquaculture and ‘precision farming’.

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Talk: Live Action Role-Playing Participatory Co-Design / Ada Lovelace 11 Nov
Talk: Live Action Role-Playing Participatory Co-Design / Ada Lovelace 11 Nov

This week we were invited to speak about the Future of Good Decisions project’s use of Live Action Role Play as a research method, at the Ada Lovelace Institute in London.

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