# No human required: Austria’s plan for AI-only government decisions

- Type: News
- Source: European Digital Rights
- Date: 2026-10-08
- Original: https://edri.org/our-work/no-human-required-austrias-plan-for-ai-only-government-decisions/
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/593197

## Summary

A sweeping change to Austria's administrative law would let authorities issue binding decisions using AI systems with no human ever reviewing the outcome. EDRi member epicenter.works has sent an open letter to parliament, and is looking for input from readers elsewhere in Europe about how other countries are handling, or planning to handle, the same issue.

## Full text

A sweeping change to Austria's administrative law would let authorities issue binding decisions using AI systems with no human ever reviewing the outcome. EDRi member epicenter.works has sent an open letter to parliament, and is looking for input from readers elsewhere in Europe about how other countries are handling, or planning to handle, the same issue.

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