Machines are Making Decisions Today that will have a Profound Impact Tomorrow
Machines are making decisions today that will have a profound impact on people’s lives tomorrow. All too often, automated systems are opaque, with little explanation of how they work and how they will impact on people’s lives. Such systems often represent people reductively, without taking into consideration the things that may be important to them.
What if you could use data to more fully understand what the future holds for people resettled through semi-automated systems? Through joint work between designers parallel systems, Territory Studios and researchers at StoryFutures and the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, we are exploring how the simulation of life-like synthetic humans might allow users of future decision-making systems to hear first-hand accounts from the future, informing decision makers by bringing the focus onto what matters most – the future life outcomes of real people in different resettlement settings.
Voices of Tomorrow helps the ADM system users to understand and appreciate the qualitative aspects of what life might actually be like in a variety of resettlement scenarios. Utilising new game engine tools (Unreal/EPIC) and AI technologies (GPT-3), the Voices of Tomorrow collaboration aims to provide a unique form of insight into complex questions about future scenarios for refugees. By considering a broader range of indicators, from both internal and external sources, organisations can make more accurate predictions of outcomes, and help decision-makers and policy-makers reflect on the desirability of alternative outcomes and policy goals. As policy objectives change, with interactive next-generation thinking tools like the Voices of Tomorrow prototype ideas it becomes possible for policy-makers and decision-makers to continuously calibrate and renew a picture of what a successful application of policy might look and sound like.
Voices of Tomorrow takes up the challenge of redefining how decision-making systems are to be optimised, in areas such as quality of life, economic benefit or the environmental impact of different alternative futures for refugees and evacuees. Voices of Tomorrow aims to help all stakeholders grasp the human impact of decisions that are being made.
Partners & Collaborators on Voices of Tomorrow
Parallel Systems: https://parallel.systems/
Territory Studios: https://territorystudio.com
StoryFutures: https://www.storyfutures.com