The Right to Be Free From Automation

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“Not everyone has the same access to technology, and not everyone can afford to bear its distributive failures.” (View Highlight)
A right to freedom from automation also involves our ability to make decisions for ourselves within the new context of automated decision-making (ADM). This is a core part of the principle of autonomy that underlies human rights. ADM systems are intended to help us make better decisions in a complex world of options, but in its most pessimistic case, ADM can erode and supplant human decision-making altogether. (View Highlight)
Moreover, ADM pushes deliberative decision-making further away from ordinary people, which is a disaster for cultivating moral and political citizens. Learning to make good choices and exercising our capacity for deliberation and decision-making has been a bedrock of ethical and political thought since classical antiquity. If we automate decision-making in moral and political life, we accept a reduced capacity and function for individual moral and political excellence in society. (View Highlight)