While the political and policy focus has rightly been on regulating artificial intelligence, we also need to plan now to harness AI’s power as a policymaking tool – especially, its capacity to model outcomes in complex systems.

Simple quantitative metrics don’t do justice to the breadth and complexity of human experience. Researchers and policymakers can benefit from frameworks implementing a nested relationship between data and lived experiences, metrics and relational processes.

As governments look to reform our social services systems, they must tap into the transformative power of relationships.

Australia deserves a public service that embodies its multiculturalism – diversity targets are a proven way to get there.