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Nicholas Cott

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#explainable ai Book Open access Oct 2026

The Empty Occupant: Answerability, Testimony, and the Limits of Machine-Mediated Authority

An institution can identify who is legally responsible for an automated decision and still lack an effective way to make a justified challenge change its outcome. What, then, sustains its authority to demand compliance? The Empty Occupant: Answerability, Testimony, and the Limits of Machine-Mediated Authority investiga...

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#explainable ai Open access Oct 2026

Testimony Without a Testifier: Epistemic Value and Commitment Ownership in Institutional AI

Machine-mediated output can inform, justify belief, guide inquiry, and sometimes acquire the practical force of institutional testimony. Yet the epistemic question whether a hearer may learn from such output is distinct from the speaker-side question of who owns the communicative commitment that the output presents. Th...

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