An Extended peer community is intended by these authors as a space where both credentialed experts from different disciplines and lay stakeholders can discuss and deliberate.
An Extended peer community is intended by its creators[2][3] as an arrangement at the science policy interface that helps to expand and assess both the knowledge-base and the value-base of policy-making'.
[4] Post-normal science's extended peer community argues for two kind of extensions: first, more than one discipline is assumed to have a potential bearing on the issue being debated, thereby providing different lenses to consider the problem.
[3][4] An example of extended peer community in action is offered by Brian Wynne, who discusses the Cumbrian sheep farmers' interaction with scientists and authorities, mobilizing farmers' knowledge of the relevant situation (acid upland moors retaining radioactive deposition from fallout longer than the lowland Oxfordshire meadows on which the official parameters were based).
[9][10] Extended peer communities and Post-normal Science have been suggested to tackle the debate on the policy and regulation of Large Language Models[11] in order to encourage "inclusion of previously marginalised perspectives".