AI: Public Service of What's Possible

Reconciliation of public administration is ongoing. By learning about our public service collision with Artificial Intelligence (AI), we can collectively affirm possible ethical and equitable futures for public policy, public administration, and AI together. Our course work requires public servants to respect the distinctly unique ways AI occurs across governing. Our learning is often linked to what we think we know as either artificial or human. Class discussions and seminar papers emphasize the ways our knowledge is the product of the best available data. Without reconciling the human limitations of the technology we created, AI might reproduce the biases of normative public administration “as it is” rather than what’s possible. To this end, students will learn about how AI could set the boundaries for what is legitimate knowledge and who is valued in the public.