Combatting the Code (Paperback)

Yee-Fui Ng

ISBN 10: 1009599216 / ISBN 13: 9781009599214

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025

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Paperback. 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. This book provides reform proposals for regulators and policymakers seeking to implement automated government decision-making. It furnishes insights for civil society organizations seeking to mount legal challenges to automated decisions and will interest scholars and students of public law, technology, and public administration. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Combatting the Code (Paperback)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009599216
• ISBN 13: 9781009599214
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Yee-Fui Ng is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law, Monash University where she researches in the area of public law and politics. Ng is the author of The Rise of Political Advisors in the Westminster System (2018) and Ministerial Advisers in Australia: The Modern Legal Context (2016), which was a finalist of the Holt Prize.