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Open access 2026

KafkaGPT: On algorithmic bureaucracy and keeping law’s promise

While artificial intelligence (AI) offers promise as a tool for efficiency and access to justice, in public administration it also threatens to reproduce the perversity in Franz Kafka’s parable “Before the Law”: systems that mimic legality while rendering the law opaque and unreachable. I develop the concept of “Digi...

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