Augmented governance: AI and the quest for improved policy

Today, it seems a common complaint is that creating meaningful change in our societies is simply too difficult, too complex.Nowhere is this more felt than in the capitols, parliaments, and government buildings where our laws and regulations are crafted.How did we arrive at the point where the very instruments designed to structure and progress society are seen as obstacles? The enduring complexity of lawmaking The challenge of legislative drafting is not new; it has long been acknowledged as one of the most difficult tasks an attorney can do. In his 1955 publication, How to Write a Law, Reed Dickerson, a respected scholar on how lawyers write and think, deemed legislative drafting the most difficult form of legal drafting – technically challenging and carrying immense social weight.“One reason why it is hard to teach people how to draft is that like all writing it looks easy,” Dickerson observed.