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What if laws could be run, not just read? What if you could see how life events like divorce or job loss directly affect your rights?
We prototype digital tools that reveal entitlements and consequences, helping citizens secure basic economic security.
Machine Law for Human Life: Stress Testing Rights and Public Services
What if laws could be run, not just read? Life events like divorce, job loss, or falling into debt are stress tests — for people and for our legal system.
In this project, we explore how legal texts can be turned into reliable, understandable, and testable digital services. Building on the concept of machine-readable law, we apply it to key life events when citizens rely on public services the most.
Using open-source tools and public code libraries, we prototype how rules can be modeled, simulated, and translated into user-facing tools — always anchored in real stories, not just policy. This is not about AI interpreting law, but about making the state intelligible, programmable, and just.
Designers, technologists, policymakers, and citizens are invited to engage with a growing “codebase of the state” and explore how legal logic could serve as infrastructure for care, trust, and dignity. This is a speculative, hopeful prototype of what government could be — if designed from the citizen outwards, and from reality in.
