'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:
• Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.
• Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.
• Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.

'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.

'Why This Has Consequences

'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.
[…]
'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.

'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'

https://www.agustinvstartari.com/post/who-gave-the-order-when-ai-issues-commands-without-a-speaker by @agustinstartari

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Technique cements bias:
Pretrial risk assessment algorithms (2021) https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/risk-assessment-algorithms-can-unfairly-impact-court-decisions

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Risk tools come to still improve our chances. A study shows:
➤ Risk assessment reduces the likelihood of incarceration for relatively affluent defendants,
➤ Risk assessment increases the likelihood of incarceration for relatively poor defendants.

(2020) https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000360

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Unitary management:
"A good decision is no longer a decision legally well-supported, but a decision made within a reasonable time, which will not be appealed and whose application will incur fewer costs."

Jacques Faget in "L’acte de juger et ses biais" (2018) https://www.cairn.info/revue-deliberee-2018-3-page-27.htm @ethics

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