Ethics and Social Impacts of AIOmbudsman and Human RightsImpact of AI and Big Data on Business and Society

Zuzana Hamuľáková, Matej Horvat

2026.2.23Acta Universitatis Carolinae Iuridica

DOI: 10.14712/23366478.2026.5

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The article analyses the legal requirements imposed on automated administrative decisions, highlighting key principles such as transparency, predictability, sound reasoning, and reviewability of decisions, while examining the challenges associated with the implementation of AI in public administration decision-making processes, including ensuring the right to a fair trial.

Abstract

In this article, the authors deal with the issue of the use of artificial intelligence systems in administrative proceedings, with a special focus on the area of administrative punishment. The article analyses the legal requirements imposed on automated administrative decisions, highlighting key principles such as transparency, predictability, sound reasoning, and reviewability of decisions, while examining the challenges associated with the implementation of AI in public administration decision-making processes, including ensuring the right to a fair trial. In the conclusion of the article, the authors propose specific possibilities and conditions for the application of semi-automated decision-making in administrative punishment in the Slovak Republic, taking into account the examined requirements arising from the right to a fair trial.

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HAMUĽÁKOVÁ, Zuzana; HORVAT, Matej. Umelá inteligencia a správne trestanie. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Iuridica, 2026, 72(1): 65–84.