Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

Over the course of three acts, participants live out a day in the life of Regina Donahue, Mayor of the fictional city of Pallard, in an immersive audiodrama; attend an in-fiction lecture on the basics of machine learning; and play a cooperative role-playing game designing a new algorithmic tool for the city of Pallard.