The purpose of this micro-project was to critically reflect on the design of an AI system by investigating the role of the designer. Designers make choices during the design of the system. Analysing these choices and their effective consequences contributes to an overall understanding of the situated knowledge embedded in a system.

The reflection concerned questions like

• What does it mean for the output of the system what the designer’s interpretations are?
• In what way do they then exercise power on this system?

In particular, this micro-project examined a concrete case. It followed the design of an agent-based social simulation that aims at modelling how inequality affects democracy.