Combatting the code : regulating automated government decision-making in comparative context / Yee-Fui Ng.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

1st edition

202797

Administrative law.

Public administration.

Public law.

Technological innovations -- Law and legislation.

Data protection -- Law and legislation.

Technology and law.

Part I. Automation and the administrative state:

1. Technology and public law

2. Automation, surveillance and the administrative state

Part II. Legal controls:

3. Legal frameworks

4. Rationality

5. Anti-discrimination

6. Public sector privacy and data protection

7. Freedom of information

Part III. Political and managerial controls:

8. Scrutiny and auditing

9. Toward a framework for technological governance

10. Conclusion.

Across the world, governments are grappling with the regulatory burden of managing their citizens' daily lives. Driven by cost-cutting and efficiency goals, they have turned to artificial intelligence and automation to assist in high-volume decision-making. Yet the implementation of these technologies has caused significant harm and major scandals. Combatting the Code analyzes the judicial, political, managerial, and regulatory controls for automated government decision-making in three Western liberal democracies: the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Yee-Fui Ng develops a technological governance framework of ex ante and ex post controls within an interlinking network of horizontal and vertical accountability mechanisms, which aims to prevent future disasters and safeguard vulnerable individuals subject to automated technologies. Ng provides recommendations for regulators and policymakers seeking to design automated governance systems that will promote higher standards of accountability, transparency, and fairness. Develops a governance framework for automated decision-making including ex ante and ex post accountability mechanisms; Provides a comparative analysis of challenging automated government decision-making in three Western liberal democracies: the US, UK and Australia; Proposes reforms for public law to meet the rising challenge posed by Al's increasing application in the public sphere. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781009599214

viii, 245 pages ; 24 cm