Definition
The ground rule that a model of a person is not the person: no representation, however accurate, acquires automatic authority to extinguish the represented person's standing against it. A system may infer, classify, predict, and recommend, but the person remains the party who carries the consequences and whose contestation the system must answer.
It matters because the framework's treatment of corrective standing rests on it. Standing is inalienable, not generous: if the subject of a decision could be replaced by a sufficiently detailed model of themselves, contestation would be a quality-control step a good enough model could close. Accuracy is evidence for a decision; it is never the decision, and it never substitutes for the person.
Scale: Systemic · Phases: Design, Deployment, Audit · Measurability: Qualitative · Maturity: Core concept
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References
- The model of a person is not the person · Theory
- Laws · Doctrine