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The Terminus Doctrine

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The Principle

The machine may compute. The human must decide. A consequential decision terminates on a human — never on the machine.

The Terminus Test

Set the two facts of a decision. The doctrine is mechanical — the verdict is too.

Is the decision consequential? money · safety · rights · liberty · denial · anything not trivially reversible
Does the machine close it? is the machine the terminus — the final word — or does it hand to a human?

Case Library

The Doctrine Applied

Ten real system types. The test is mechanical; the verdicts follow from the facts.

The machine computes. The human answers.

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