Abstract This session explored the challenges and tensions involved in automating societies, especially public services, government, and civil society. Inspired by Tamar Sharon's concept of sphere transgressions, we explored the way digitization and AI technologies are permeating all societal spheres and institutions, championed as solutions to virtually every social problem. This brings the very specific values of technology design and development into other domains, where they challenge other values, logics, practices, and types of expertise. Participants used the sphere transgression framework, case studies, and their own experiences and expertise to illuminate societal effects of AI in public life. Where and how is AI creating positive synergy with public values, and where does it threaten the intelligences of different social spaces, practices, and systems?
Rannisto et al. (Sat,) studied this question.