Judgement and Responsibility in the Age of Automation
This book is a foundational text of ReasonQ.
In an era shaped by automation, compliance systems, and AI-supported decision-making, organisations have become highly proficient at explaining how decisions were made. What is less clear, often only revealed after the fact, is who stands behind them when certainty is gone.
Standing Behind Decisions does not offer frameworks, tools, or guidance on how to make better decisions. It examines something more difficult, what it means to hold judgement when outcomes are contested, when systems can no longer absorb responsibility, and when explanation is no longer sufficient.
The book explores the limits of process, audit, legal advice, and automation, not as failures, but as boundaries. It reflects on judgement as something that cannot be optimised away, delegated without loss, or fully protected in advance.
This text does not prescribe what should be done next.
It exists to clarify where responsibility ultimately resides.
Standing Behind Decisions articulates the ethical and governance position from which ReasonQ exists.
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