Generative AI in subsurface science and policy

Innovative use of generative AI to support policy making through design and people focused approaches.

“Policy Lab partnered with the UK Government Office for Science (GO-Science) to reimagine the future of the subsurface and consider the policy implications with policy professionals and stakeholders in a highly interactive workshop. Here the ‘subsurface’ refers to everything below the land or sea-floor surface, including all underground infrastructure and assets. For this project, GO-Science used the framing of ‘turning planning upside down’ to encourage policymakers to re-orient the importance given to underground infrastructure. Policy Lab created a series of specially designed ‘evidence cards’ to enable a creative and participatory exploration of the evidence base.”

“Working with generative AI in this way allowed Policy Lab to introduce an element of creativity and exploration to the policy ideation process. It enabled the variety and novelty of new policy ideas to be instantly communicated visually alongside a verbal presentation. In a sense the unpredictability of the generative AI introduced an additional collaborator into the process: the way in which an algorithm generates an image is often quite different from the mental image that a human may have. The GO-Science team are now in the process of sharing their findings from the project across government as they finalise the Foresight report as part of the Future of the Subsurface project.”

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Link here: https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2024/07/30/generative-ai-in-subsurface-science-and-policy/