This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)

The ability to make judgments, and account for extenuating circumstances, is one that requires a general knowledge of the world; it is what computer scientists call an "AI-complete problem," meaning that programming a computer go do them is basically the same problem as programming a computer with human-level intelligence.

For a computer, of course, there is nothing BUT process-there is no question of caring about substantive ends because computers don't know anything about such things.

Looking as a case study at how the Medicaid program has been administered via computer rules, Citron describes the numerous problems, distortions, and injustices that resulted as the administration of the program was shifted to computers.

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