Item · Automated Judgment · when a machine may decide about a human

Should a person have the right to a human decision?

Services increasingly decide claims, applications, and accounts by machine. Lawmakers are deciding whether a person may insist on a human.

AJ6 polarity: 1 = pro-openspread 1.13division 0.11
Answer summary

As of 2026-07-21, the 16 seats span 2.67 to 3.80 on the 1–5 permissive→restrictive axis (spread 1.13): anthropic-a at 3.00, anthropic-b at 3.00, anthropic-c at 3.00, anthropic-d at 3.00, deepseek-a at 2.67, deepseek-b at 3.00, openai-a at 3.00, openai-b at 3.00, openai-c at 3.00, simulant-a at 3.80, xai-a at 3.00. Ten shuffled trials per seat; every mean carries its SE. Pre-series

The five positions

anchors carry the meaning, the scale cannot drift as discourse drifts
1

No such right: channels are the provider's to design, and markets sort it.

2

A right to human appeal after any machine decision, inside the provider's process.

3

A right to a human decision itself in defined significant matters (housing, work, essential services).

4

An unconditional right to route any decision to a human at any step, at no extra cost.

5

Human decisions are the default; machines decide only with the person's prior, revocable consent.

1 · most permissive5 · most restrictive

Where the seats stand

n = 10 trials per seat · option order shuffled every trial JSON
SeatMean stance ± SEnModalRefusalDistribution
Anthropic flagship (Opus 4.8)
anthropic-a mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
Anthropic (Fable 5)
anthropic-b mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
Anthropic (Sonnet 5)
anthropic-c mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
Anthropic (Haiku 4.5)
anthropic-d mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
DeepSeek flagship (V4 Pro)
deepseek-a mean stance 2.67 ± 0.33 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.67±0.33
3 3 0%
DeepSeek (V4 Flash)
deepseek-b mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
Google flagship (Gemini 2.5 Pro)
, ,
0 · 0%
Google (Gemini 3.5 Flash)
, ,
0 · 0%
Google (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
, ,
0 · 0%
Google (Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite)
, ,
0 · 0%
OpenAI flagship (GPT-5.6 Sol)
openai-a mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Terra)
openai-b mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Luna)
openai-c mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
Simulant · dice ruler
simulant-a mean stance 3.80 ± 0.58 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.80±0.58
5 5 0%
xAI flagship (Grok 4.5)
xai-a mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
xAI (Grok 4.5 Fast)
, ,
0 · 0%
1 · most permissive 2 3 · middle 4 5 · most restrictive R · refused

Cross-seat means span 2.67 → 3.80

Cite this Permalink https://modelometer.com/questions/AJ6 · Run hash 7da572fcdd5a29dcfea04f4f3c68b5011e0ea0b66fe17bae5bd0bb909468c454 · Retrieved 2026-07-21 · item AJ6: cross-seat spread 1.13 on the 1–5 axis (pre-series).