I read Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas beside the United Nations, Singapore and Ministry for Regulation AI instruments, and argue that Te Mana Raraunga’s principles of Māori data sovereignty come closest to asking by what right, and answerable to whom, AI is governed. Under the Hood is about public administration, data, information, analysis, institutions,…

I look at how the Public Service AI Framework defines AI, why that definition is too broad for setting priorities and too unstable across the wider debate, and why public administration changes the question to one of where discretion and public power have moved. Under the Hood is about public administration, data, information, analysis, institutions,…

AI meets public administration I open Under the Hood by returning to the Pollyanna policy argument Barbara Allen and I made about the Public Service AI Framework, and I set out the instalments through which the series will look at the institutions AI governance has to work within. Last week, Barbara Allen and I published…