Towards 'Good Human-AI Decisions': Law, the Humanities, and Creative Practice
Friday 17th March, 2023
Automated decision-making tools are widely regarded as presenting a challenge to administrative law and procedure, as well as the core values of the rule of law. Whereas recent research has emphasised the need for designed decision systems to better conform to rule of law norms, Dr Connal Parsley’s UKRI-funded research project seeks to identify new design values, procedural norms and evaluative practices—a new vision of ‘good decisions’—for an age where humans and AI increasingly ‘co-decide’. The project extends contemporary research in the humanities on evolving technosocial ecologies,and adopts mixed methods including creative ‘prefigurative’ participatory methods and multi-sited ethnography, in order to shape suggestions for the reform of administrative decision-making law and practice.
In this talk, Dr Connal Parsley outlined the project’s motivations and research design, to showcase how knowledge from the humanities and creative practice can help liberal legal systems to more thoroughly address the challenges presented by automated decision-making technologies.