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III. #Parliament, not future regulation, must decide. Whether these areas ever get automated should be settled in the law itself from the outset, not left to a #regulation decided later by the same authority that would benefit from automating them.
As far as we’re aware, #Austria is currently an absolute outlier in planning to allow fully automated decisions across such a broad range of administrative matters, with the scope largely left open to future regulation.
@epicenter_works@chaos.social
“… while the authority itself can revoke the same decision on its own initiative for up to two months, in some cases even without pointing to a specific error, simply citing a “systemic” one.
The [Austrian] government keeps the option to fix its own mistakes later; the person on the receiving end carries the uncertainty in the meantime. #Austria still has no independent AI oversight body, despite the #EU #AIAct calling for exactly that.”
🔥 @epicenter_works@chaos.social: No Human Required: Austria’s Plan for AI Government Decisions
#Austria will soon get to find out what happens when #AI systems are allowed to issue legally binding government decisions without any human oversight.
The draft also shifts risk onto the people affected by it. Citizens get two weeks to challenge an automated decision, a tight window when errors from an LLM are often invisible without close scrutiny
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