[D] Do any major ML research groups focus on policy-making applications?

While reading a recent DeepMind paper on an economic game:

[https://www.deepmind.com/blog/human-centred-mechanism-design-with-democratic-ai](https://www.deepmind.com/blog/human-centred-mechanism-design-with-democratic-ai)

[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01383-x.pdf](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01383-x.pdf)

I encountered this disclaimer:

>"Finally, we emphasize that our results do not imply support for a
form of ‘AI government’, whereby autonomous agents make policy
decisions without human intervention"

It is obvious we want some human oversight. Still, optimizing our societal policies seems to me one of the most promising positive transformations the ML could bring about, much better than a new phone assistant.

There are known promising …

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