Government and Civil Society Consultations - Review and Development (2)
This follow-up session builds on insights gathered during the Connection and Discovery consultation. Participants will revisit key themes, challenges, and design questions around human–AI decision-making raised in Event 1, and help refine the focus for the 2026 Live Action Role Play (LARP). The session will explore how emerging ideas align with legal, ethical, and institutional priorities, and begin shaping possible scenarios and evaluation criteria. Open to participants from Event 1 and new invitees with relevant expertise, this workshop supports the co-design of meaningful, testable interventions in AI-driven governance.
Government and Civil Society Consultations - Whitepaper Development (3)
The final event in the Future of Good Decisions consultation series focuses on consolidating insights gathered across earlier sessions into a whitepaper. Participants will collaborate to identify key findings, principles, and best practices for the ethical design and evaluation of human–AI decision systems in government. This session will also refine policy recommendations and propose frameworks for future collaboration, regulation, and participatory co-design. Open to previous contributors and select stakeholders, the workshop aims to shape a shared foundation for responsible innovation in public sector decision-making.
Government and Civil Society Consultations - Connection and Discovery (1)
Part of The Future of Good Decisions project, this initial consultation event brings together up to 20 participants from government and civil society to explore the ethical design of human-AI decision systems. With a focus on participatory co-design and sociotechnical evaluation, the session will identify key concerns, values, and governance goals to inform a 2026 Live Action Role Play (LARP) modelling future decision-making. Participants will help shape the project’s direction and may join later strategy-forming events. Confirmed attendees include the Ada Lovelace Institute and the EHRC.
Econormativities Workshop 2 | Technosocial Normativities
This two-day workshop investigates how technologies generate and shape social norms. Organised in partnership with Hong Kong University Faculty of Law, it brings together scholars across law, philosophy, and technology studies to examine the normative dimensions of technosocial systems. From algorithmic governance to AI-driven infrastructures, the event explores how technical processes create, challenge, and transform value systems and regulatory logics. Participants will reflect on how norms emerge across multiple registers—legal, machinic, ecological—and consider how these overlapping layers interact in a rapidly evolving technical environment.
Decisions After the Algorithmic Turn | Politics, Ethics, Ontology (Workshop 2)
This one-day workshop examines the evolving legal concept of decision in the wake of the landmark Australian case Pintarich v Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (2018), which raised critical questions about administrative law and automation. With a focus on Justice Kerr’s dissent—emphasising that decision-making can occur without direct human input—the event brings together scholars and legal practitioners to explore how automation challenges traditional legal frameworks. Featuring The Hon. Duncan Kerr AO, SC, the workshop considers whether existing legal categories remain fit for purpose in the age of algorithmic governance.
Econormativities Workshop 1 | Ecology, Technology, and Law: Towards an Econormativity
This interdisciplinary workshop explores econormativity—rethinking legal frameworks in light of ecological crises and technological change. By bridging eco-legal thought and philosophies of technology, it aims to develop new ways of understanding law as entangled with both biological and technical systems. Participants will examine current legal vocabularies and propose alternatives more attuned to planetary realities. Supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society and Melbourne Law School.
Decisions After the Algorithmic Turn Workshop 1 | Politics, Ethics, Ontology
This one-day workshop explores how algorithmic systems are reshaping the concept of decision. As liberal human agency gives way to posthuman configurations—where computation underpins action—the workshop investigates how decisions are conceptualised, located, and valued in technosocial contexts. Drawing from posthumanism, cybernetics, and deconstruction, it asks whether “decision” itself is a political technology, and how ethical judgment can emerge from systems driven by machine learning and feedback loops. Featuring scholars from law, philosophy, and political theory, the event examines decision-making beyond individualism, towards new ethical and ontological frameworks.