The transition towards a model of administrative decision based on algorithms
Table of contents: 1. Artificial Intelligence, algorithms and digitalisation: introductory remarks and analytical perspective. – 2. Data governance and digital transition: between organisation and administrative activity. – 3. Graduality and transparency in the construction of algorithmic administrative decision-making. – 4. Discretionary power and algorithmic administrative decision. The creative case law on the fundamental principles of algorithmic legality. – 5. Final remarks on the transition towards an algorithm-based model of administrative decision.
Abstract: Il ricorso all’intelligenza artificiale e la promozione degli investimenti in tecnologie e infrastrutture digitali costituiscono fattori destinati a incidere in modo sempre più pervasivo sui modelli di decisione pubblica. Il costo della burocrazia e la lentezza dei processi decisionali consentono di concepire la digitalizzazione non solo come approntamento di strumenti informatici, ma come volano per la semplificazione e l’accelerazione amministrativa. L’analisi si concentra sulla costruzione delle decisioni basate su algoritmi dal punto di vista della loro gradualità e trasparenza. Gli approdi giurisprudenziali e normativi con l’affermazione dei principi di legalità algoritmica, per tale via, suggeriscono di riflettere sulla predeterminazione delle scelte e sulla ricerca dei parametri in base ai quali esercitare il controllo di legalità sostanziale.
The adoption of artificial intelligence, coupled with growing investment in digital technologies and infrastructure, is reshaping public decision-making in increasingly pervasive ways. The costs of bureaucracy and the delays inherent in administrative procedures have fostered an understanding of digitalisation not merely as the deployment of information technologies, but also as a means of promoting simplification and greater efficiency. The analysis focuses on the structuring of algorithmic decisions from the perspective of their progressive articulation and transparency. Recent judicial and legislative developments, marked by the emergence of the principles of algorithmic legality, offer an opportunity to reconsider both the ex ante structuring of discretionary power and the criteria for assessing the substantive legality of public action.