Ideas in the Book — Ceremonial Sovereignty, the Selection Principle, and More

Direct answer Five ideas organize The Last Human Decision’s account of how institutions could hand judgment to machines without anyone deciding to: ceremonial sovereignty, the migration of judgment, the Selection Principle, the hollow human-in-the-loop, and rule by process.

01 Ceremonial SovereigntyHumans keep the titles, signatures, and formal authority — the consequential judgment moves elsewhere. 02 The Migration of JudgmentHow the final say moved from craft workers to managers, to bureaucracies, to algorithms — and what the next floor might be. 03 The Selection PrincipleDirection without a director: why competitive environments could spread machine judgment with no one choosing it. 04 Human in the LoopPresence is not control. Five ways to be in the loop — only some of which preserve judgment. 05 Rule by ProcessWhat if authority disperses into procedures instead of concentrating in a machine sovereign?