#rulesascode — Public Fediverse posts

🎞️ The videos of the 2026 OpenFisca Conference on #PublicPolicy #Innovation & #RulesAsCode are now live! You can watch them all on https://videos.lescommuns.org/w/p/1pTNivCgSq7jEteqo1tJg8?playlistPosition=20&resume=true

😅 My “a dozen interns on cocaine” metaphor for LLMs made Beth Noveck laugh enough that she made it into the title of this interview. I'm happy that one of my intellectual self-defense tips against AI gets shared more broadly. More details about it in a thread.
https://rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/computational-law-ai-government
There is way more in this interview than that metaphor, like difficulties in funding for #DigitalCommons and how I believe LLMs can and cannot be useful to #RulesAsCode.

😅 My “a dozen interns on cocaine” metaphor for LLMs made Beth Noveck laugh enough that she made it into the title of this interview. I'm happy that one of my intellectual self-defense tips against AI gets shared more broadly. More details about it in a thread.
https://rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/computational-law-ai-government
There is way more in this interview than that metaphor, like difficulties in funding for #DigitalCommons and how I believe LLMs can and cannot be useful to #RulesAsCode.

😅 My “a dozen interns on cocaine” metaphor for LLMs made Beth Noveck laugh enough that she made it into the title of this interview. I'm happy that one of my intellectual self-defense tips against AI gets shared more broadly. More details about it in a thread.
https://rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/computational-law-ai-government
There is way more in this interview than that metaphor, like difficulties in funding for #DigitalCommons and how I believe LLMs can and cannot be useful to #RulesAsCode.

😅 My “a dozen interns on cocaine” metaphor for LLMs made Beth Noveck laugh enough that she made it into the title of this interview. I'm happy that one of my intellectual self-defense tips against AI gets shared more broadly. More details about it in a thread.
https://rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/computational-law-ai-government
There is way more in this interview than that metaphor, like difficulties in funding for #DigitalCommons and how I believe LLMs can and cannot be useful to #RulesAsCode.

😅 My “a dozen interns on cocaine” metaphor for LLMs made Beth Noveck laugh enough that she made it into the title of this interview. I'm happy that one of my intellectual self-defense tips against AI gets shared more broadly. More details about it in a thread.
https://rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/computational-law-ai-government
There is way more in this interview than that metaphor, like difficulties in funding for #DigitalCommons and how I believe LLMs can and cannot be useful to #RulesAsCode.

There are still a few tickets left for in-person attendance to our yearly conference —and many for the live-streamed keynote. Register now!

Big thanks to our sponsors that enable us to offer this #RulesAsCode event free of charge:
• Salsa Digital
• @inria (@HenriVerdier)
• Assemblic

This illustrates once more how #OpenSource in #RulesAsCode can yield value beyond what was initially planned: from the initial use case of advising Members of Parliament on the budget of the State to supporting broader democratic debate with data!

All datasets featured for these elections: https://www.data.gouv.fr/posts/jeux-de-donnees-liees-aux-elections-municipales

Wearing my @openfisca Association hat however, I am only proud that another international institution after OECD, @dpgalliance and the G7 recognises further the impact, relevance and uniqueness of OpenFisca for #RulesAsCode. I hope that this direct recognition by @EUCommission will also provide more stable support than the national one that tends to vary often as the political context changes 💪

Onwards! <§>

Until November, solutions were only listed through aggregation of national portals. In the last quarter, the @European Commission decided to expand sourcing by identifying “standout solutions” that go way beyond national usage. We are proud to be part of the first cohort to be directly listed as a solution for EU-wide (and beyond!) interoperability for #RulesAsCode, alongside other widely recognised #DigitalCommons such as @decidim and @consuldemocracy.

La CAF a ouvert le code source de ses algorithmes de ciblage des contrôles.
https://www.caf.fr/professionnels/etudes-et-international/donnees-et-outils/modele-de-datamining-donnees-entrantes
#RulesAsCode #TransparenceAlgorithmique

Mit "Law as Code" zum proaktiven, fairen und effizienten Staat? Gesetze sind oft in komplexen, schwer verständlichen Texten formuliert, die für Laien und sogar Fachleute schwierig zu interpretieren sind. Die Umsetzung von neuen Gesetzen in (digitale) Verwaltungsprozesse passiert oft manuell und ist langwierig. Mit #LawAsCode oder #RulesAsCode können Gesetze und Vorschriften in eine maschinenlesbare Form gebracht werden, die von Computern verarbeitet werden kann.

💡 Einwohner:innen können...

Mit "Law as Code" zum proaktiven, fairen und effizienten Staat? Gesetze sind oft in komplexen, schwer verständlichen Texten formuliert, die für Laien und sogar Fachleute schwierig zu interpretieren sind. Die Umsetzung von neuen Gesetzen in (digitale) Verwaltungsprozesse passiert oft manuell und ist langwierig. Mit #LawAsCode oder #RulesAsCode können Gesetze und Vorschriften in eine maschinenlesbare Form gebracht werden, die von Computern verarbeitet werden kann.

Can coding the law make justice more accessible? ⚖️💻

In our new podcast episode, 🇨🇦 lawyer & developer Martin Perron explains how Rules as Code can speed up access to justice & democratize legal knowledge.

🎧 Listen here 👉 https://shows.acast.com/6666be8ab6f3d900125875e8

#AccessToJustice #LegalTech #RulesAsCode

You can now watch in replay the official launch event of the OpenFisca Association and discover the path for further adoption of #RulesAsCode, the governance of transformative #DigitalCommons and the state of OpenFisca adoption around the world.
https://videos.lescommuns.org/w/3w9FrFgKFEwceG1Kn17xfA
Thanks again to our speakers for sharing their insights: Ambassador @HenriVerdier; CEO of @dpgalliance Liv Nordhaug; Senior G7 Researcher Jess Rapson; CEO of GovTechTokyo; association executive director @MattiSG!

A subset of the 🇺🇸 tax system as of 2024 is available as declarative XML as part of the IRS opening the source code of DirectFile (an app enabling filing tax returns online, stopped by the Trump administration).
https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main/direct-file/backend/src/main/resources/tax
#RulesAsCode

I will present OpenFisca and how #DigitalCommons are the path to sovereignty at the “#GovTech Eurovision” panel today in Rzeszów 🇵🇱

Looking forward to this round table with high-level representatives of #DigitalTransformation, and maybe new prototypes of #RulesAsCode in Europe in the next months!

In these #RulesAsCode recommendations for the #G7, we promote #OpenSource, #BetterRules (RaC from the drafting phase), and suggest to start with social benefits assessment for high impact.
https://www.think7.org/publications/rules-as-code-for-a-more-transparent-and-efficient-global-economy/
Thanks again to Jess Rapson for all the writing and coordination work as lead author!

Join the Association official Launch Event to meet other members from around the world, hear about the state of OpenFisca across countries and discover how you can benefit from the rising global interest in #RulesAsCode!
Register on https://opencollective.com/openfisca/events/association-launch-event-23f75b60

💡 Rules as Code : façonnez l’avenir de la gouvernance et des services numériques avec @UEFrance, @grnet_gr, @digicampusteam et #GovTech4all.

📅17-18 mars 2025
📍Paris
👩‍💻 réservé aux pro du numérique
➡️ https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/agenda/rules-as-code-rencontre-portant-sur-lavenir-de-la-gouvernance-et-des-services-numeriques/
#RulesasCode #DigitalGovernance #Europe #GovTech
https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/agenda/rules-as-code-rencontre-portant-sur-lavenir-de-la-gouvernance-et-des-services-numeriques/

Haven't posted about #rulesascode here in a bit...

Had fun talking with the RaC Guild about categorizing Rules as Code technologies, recently.

Since August I've been very slowly working on getting the reasoner in the new Blawx prototype up to par with the current version. I expect to be finished with that major refactoring project this weekend.

I expect to have a MVP of Blawx v2 next month, and a live version online early in the new year.🤞🏻

I wrote a paper on governance of AI & Rules as Code and it's now up on the homepage of

https://law.mit.edu

if you're interested in such things.

#RulesAsCode

Very close 🤏🏻 to being able to create a demo with my new §Blawx prototype demonstrating 4 of the myriad ways neuro-symbolic AI can be used to enhance #RulesAsCode: drafting the code, running an interview, converting facts to symbolic representations, and converting symbolic AI results to natural language.

Stay tuned...

#AI #NeuroSymbolic #LegalTech

This is huge for #RulesAsCode. Not only the 20% improvement in reasoning, but the fact that with no human intervention they got executable declarative encodings 85% of the time.

It means having an LLM draft declarative logic code for you can work, and the encodings you will get will be useful as compared to just giving it the text.

Now we just need to see to what extent it also works in §Blawx, with the semantics of sCASP, applied to law...

#LegalTech

https://openreview.net/forum?id=nWXMv949ZH&noteId=qt0t8SsVvT

Got a little bit of work done on the new §Blawx prototype, and the code editors are now fully-functional.

Next up is to make some architecture decisions and re-implement the back-end reasoner and API. Hoping to make it more scalable, more secure, and easier to maintain than in v1.

Once that's done, the kind of demos I can do of neuro-symbolic AI for Law get a lot cooler. #RulesAsCode #LegalTech

Finally got to spend some time working on the new version of Blawx. Fixed a bug in the Agendas interface, added all the CRUD features for chat applications. Next will be the chat interface and a completion endpoint, and then I can start experimenting with generating code from agendas that will actually control the behaviour of the chat agent.

I wish I was more certain WHAT was going to work, there. Something will, but the less appealing options are a lot of work. #LegalTech #RulesAsCode

§Blawx has moved. You can now find the live demo at https://blawx.dev. Please update your bookmarks! #RulesAsCode #LegalTech

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=inpLqhbd3RE&t=442s Is Martin Perron at the #GC giving a 5m lightning talk about #RulesAsCode and §Blawx!

If anyone has been waiting to get their #RulesAsCode fix, after a several-month delay, https://dev.blawx.com is back up and running with the latest version of Blawx. I'm grateful for your patience! #LawFedi #LegalTech

My #RulesAsCode colleague in #GCDigital Martin Perron absolutely kills it in this interview on the Rechtsgespäch podcast! His segment is at 25m, (and in English). Sets out everything we have been doing with §Blawx for the last couple of years, and why it is unique in the world! 🇨🇦

#legaltech #lawfedi

https://rechtsgespraech.libsyn.com/verwaltungsdigitalisierung-law-as-code-in-deutschland-und-kanada

At least two more big news items soon to come, too. Great momentum. Please share!

I'll be presenting two DPGs at #FOSDEM at 17h50 in the Public Code room (AW1.120):
• @opentermsarchive → shifting the power balance from #BigTech to regulators and end users through #ToS observation
• #OpenFisca https://openfisca.org → expressing #RulesAsCode and opening APIs on legislation
See you there! 😊

A week after I started, I have a new version of the code editor I built the code generation demo in last week. It is functionally identical. But instead of one enormous 7500 line HTML file, it's a single 40-line file, and 134 individual javascript modules. Which will make life a lot easier when I start building the interview agenda features next weekend. You can call it "paying off technical debt." #RulesAsCode

Wouldn't it be great if instead of having to write #RulesAsCode code yourself, AI would just do it for you?

Man. That would be great.

So anyway, I made a video today.

#LegalTech #LawFedi

What's going on with the Chinese Smart Court System of Systems?

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