GitFlash Research · August–September 2026
AI Courts
The human capacity behind machine justice.
A guaranteed human determination may change who seeks an AI first decision — and the human capacity required to honour that guarantee.
Research publication · 16 pages · PDF · 1.4 MB · English · Published 9 September 2026
If every AI first decision can be replaced, on request, by a full human determination, the guarantee itself becomes part of the calculation of whether to bring a claim at all.
That guarantee has a price measured in human hours. Once the guarantee is credible enough to change behaviour, human determination capacity — not model quality, cost or speed — is the constraint the design has to respect.
More access changes the constraint.
What this issue covers
- Demand for an AI first decision, and the evidence that argues against a simple demand effect
- One real chatbot dispute, read in detail
- Procedure, trust and the authority of the deciding body
- A disclosed, hypothetical model of human determination capacity
- A research agenda: what would have to be measured, and how
Scope and limitations
This issue combines published evidence, a hypothetical capacity model that is disclosed as hypothetical, and proposed research that has not been fielded.
Faster and cheaper does not automatically make an AI first decision more attractive. Trust, procedure and the authority of the deciding body still shape whether a claim is brought at all.
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