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Is there a way to set an overall policy for your empire that will influence the decisions the automation AI makes. Expansion, warmonger, peace, diplomacy, science, trade...

That is a general question that requires a more detailed approach.

-For exploration you cannot define which star types the AI needs to investigate first, if that’s what you mean.
I do see the AI prioritizing planets and locations with a higher chance of providing something beneficial to your empire however. No input needed there.

-Diplomacy policy (called strategy in the menu) is set per faction in your diplomacy menu, but on fully auto the AI goes by the racial traits and faction type to determine if its likely to become a useful ally or not and adopts a fitting strategy.

-Trade is based on resource demand for your empire and the buy and sell orders of the known galaxy. If you want to prioritize a given resource outside of this you will need to manually skew building facilities to accomodate.
Do note that the AI already is aware of resource priorities.