# Decision Automation > **Machine-Evolution Nexus:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] places automated decisions inside the objectives and environments that select which systems persist. ## Definition **Decision automation** delegates classification, recommendation, allocation or enforcement to computational processes. ## Rights Context Automation does not move accountability into the machine. Affected subjects require notice, contestability, provenance and a responsible institutional counterparty. ## Relationships [[wiki/Computational Governance|Computational Governance]], [[wiki/AI Governance|AI Governance]], [[wiki/Objective Function|Objective Function]], [[wiki/Appeals Mechanisms|Appeals Mechanisms]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "More likely, advancing computers and algorithms will stand for nothing, and will be the amplifiers and implementers of consciously-directed human choices." > **— D.A. Wallach**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/AI Control/Algorithms Will Amplify Human Choices by D.A. Wallach|Algorithms Will Amplify Human Choices by D.A. Wallach]] > "If AI systems act on their own, they can make errors that perhaps would not be made by a system with a human in the loop." > **— Peter Norvig**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/AI Control/Autonomous AI Can Make Errors Humans Would Avoid by Peter Norvig|Autonomous AI Can Make Errors Humans Would Avoid by Peter Norvig]] > "More disturbing to me is the stubborn reluctance in many segments of society to allow computers to take over tasks that simple models perform demonstrably better than humans." > **— Richard H. Thaler**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/AI Control/Computers Already Make Better Routine Decisions by Richard H. Thaler|Computers Already Make Better Routine Decisions by Richard H. Thaler]] > "Machines that think make it possible for more people to celebrate the joy of human intuitive insight, and to cultivate the equanimity that is unique to the self-controlled human mind." > **— Nina Jablonski**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/AI Control/Thinking Machines Could Deepen Human Intuition by Nina Jablonski|Thinking Machines Could Deepen Human Intuition by Nina Jablonski]] > "In order to achieve the dream for thinking machines, they will have to understand and question values, suffer internal conflicts, and experience intimacy." > **— Andrés Roemer**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/AI Control/Thinking Machines Must Experience Values and Intimacy by Andrés Roemer|Thinking Machines Must Experience Values and Intimacy by Andrés Roemer]]