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The Decision You Cannot Appeal: Automated Power, Institutional Judgment, and the Right to Be Heard
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Series: The Borrowed Mind, Book 8
General ComputersGeneral LawGeneral Political Science
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 31 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The decision arrives. The reason does not.
Automated systems increasingly rank, flag, recommend, approve, deny, and prioritise. They can make institutions faster and more consistent. They can also turn a person into a score, hide policy choices inside technical systems, and leave those most affected facing an answer that no one seems authorised to reconsider.
In The Decision You Cannot Appeal, G B Edlin examines a question more important than whether an algorithm is accurate: what makes institutional power legitimate when software shapes the outcome?
Clear, humane, and practical, this book shows how to:
- distinguish a prediction from a justified decision;
- recognise proxy discrimination, automation bias, feedback loops, and silent policy drift;
- design notice, explanation, correction, review, and appeal that work under real conditions;
- procure and govern AI without outsourcing public responsibility;
- build decision records, impact assessments, monitoring, and independent oversight;
- protect efficiency while preserving dignity, discretion, and the right to be heard.
Drawing on leading public frameworks and real institutional patterns, it provides a Contestability Test, model decision notice, appeal protocol, procurement questions, case studies, practice scenarios, maturity model, and board-level review.
For leaders, professionals, policymakers, technologists, educators, and citizens, this is a guide to building institutions that can use automated judgment without becoming unanswerable.
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