Research into Practitioner-In-The-Loop (PITL)

Core Principles


Key practitioner roles that focus on the partnership between GenAI and human practitioners.

Survival (Societal Foundations)

  1. Farmers & Food Producers
    • GenAI: Forecasts yields, pests, soil health.
    • Practitioner: Adapts to land, culture, and human context — making decisions in the field, planting, harvesting, and working with local communities.
  2. Healthcare Practitioners
    • GenAI: Generates diagnosis/treatment plans.
    • Practitioner: Provides empathy, judgment, and adaptation — examining patients, delivering treatment, and supporting recovery.
  3. Builders & Craftspeople
    • GenAI: Creates designs, safety checks, cost models.
    • Practitioner: Ensures build quality and cultural fit — laying bricks, wiring buildings, crafting safe and usable spaces.
  4. Energy & Environmental Practitioners
    • GenAI: Models energy use, risks, climate patterns.
    • Practitioner: Balances trade-offs, implements strategies — installing solar, restoring ecosystems, managing resources on the ground.
  5. Technicians & Tradespeople
    • GenAI: Troubleshooting guides, predictive maintenance.
    • Practitioner: Applies practical skill — repairing machines, fixing wiring, improvising safe solutions when reality diverges from the plan.

Security & Stability

  1. Emergency Responders
    • GenAI: Triage calls, propose response protocols.
    • Practitioner: Acts in chaos — rescuing people, administering first aid, reassuring communities in moments of crisis.
  2. Security & Defense Practitioners
    • GenAI: Scans threats, predicts risks.
    • Practitioner: Applies judgment — patrolling streets, conducting missions, negotiating peace, defending digital and physical spaces.
  3. Legal Practitioners
    • GenAI: Drafts contracts, analyses case law.
    • Practitioner: Interprets ethics — arguing in court, advising clients, mediating disputes, delivering justice.
  4. Logistics & Transport Workers
    • GenAI: Optimises routing, load balancing.
    • Practitioner: Handles disruptions — driving trucks, piloting planes, coordinating supply chains, ensuring goods arrive.
  5. Financial Practitioners
    • GenAI: Automates analysis, fraud detection.
    • Practitioner: Builds trust — advising families, auditing books, structuring deals, ensuring financial wellbeing.

Growth & Knowledge

  1. Educators
    • GenAI: Creates personalised learning paths.
    • Practitioner: Motivates and mentors — teaching lessons, encouraging students, building curiosity and confidence.
  2. Scientists & Researchers
    • GenAI: Literature reviews, hypothesis generation.
    • Practitioner: Frames questions and validates — running experiments, writing papers, presenting insights to society.
  3. Engineers & Technologists
    • GenAI: Designs, code fixes, simulations.
    • Practitioner: Builds and integrates — coding, testing, constructing systems, ensuring reliability and safety.
  4. Entrepreneurs & Business Builders
    • GenAI: Market analysis, business models, prototypes.
    • Practitioner: Creates ventures — pitching, fundraising, leading teams, taking risks to bring new ideas alive.
  5. Communicators & Media Practitioners
    • GenAI: Content generation, fact-checking.
    • Practitioner: Ensures truth and resonance — interviewing, investigating, broadcasting, telling stories that matter.

Meaning & Connection

  1. Caregivers
    • GenAI: Suggests routines, tracks progress.
    • Practitioner: Offers compassion — feeding, washing, comforting, and supporting dignity in daily life.
  2. Social Workers & Community Practitioners
    • GenAI: Analyses systemic issues, allocates resources.
    • Practitioner: Mediates and supports — visiting homes, advocating for vulnerable people, connecting communities to services.
  3. Cultural & Creative Practitioners
    • GenAI: Co-creates art, music, stories.
    • Practitioner: Brings human meaning — painting, performing, writing, crafting culture with symbolism and depth.
  4. Religious & Spiritual Leaders
    • GenAI: Maps scripture, ethics, parallels.
    • Practitioner: Provides lived wisdom — preaching, guiding, listening, conducting rituals, holding space for meaning.
  5. Public Servants & Policy Makers
    • GenAI: Simulates outcomes, models governance.
    • Practitioner: Balances values — debating policies, drafting laws, engaging citizens, representing collective will.

Use Cases