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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 70 No 2 (2024), 147–157
National Report on Automation in Decision-Making in Public Administration in Slovakia
Radomír Jakab
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2024.28
published online: 23. 05. 2024
abstract
The development of information technology and its use in everyday life must inevitably have an impact on public administration and its decision-making. Progress in artificial intelligence is also opening up wider opportunities for the use of automation of decision-making processes in public administration. Decision-making processes that once had to be handled by humans can now be automated. However, there must be a sufficient legal basis for this, setting out the legal limits of such automated decision-making. In this paper, the legal possibilities of automation of decision-making processes in the field of public administration in the Slovak Republic were examined, the obstacles that hinder the use of this tool were defined, as well as certain legal solutions eliminating or minimizing the consequences of these obstacles were outlined. The purpose of this paper was not to exhaustively describe and solve the problems with the automation of decision-making processes in public administration in the Slovak Republic. Rather, the purpose was to outline the problem areas that should be addressed in legal research in the coming period.
keywords: public administration; automation; decision-making; decision; artificial intelligence
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