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Edlin, G B

 
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Sinopsis

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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