Enterprise governance is often assumed to require human oversight at every step. A new paper from arXiv challenges that assumption, arguing that governance requires decisions, evidence, and accountable authority—but not necessarily a human implementation for every review task.
The authors develop a task-substitution framework for Digital Governance, aiming to identify which review tasks can be automated while preserving accountability. The framing suggests a shift from human-in-the-loop to human-accountable systems, though the abstract does not detail specific methods or results.
Because the abstract is brief, the paper's exact approach remains unclear. Still, the core claim is notable: the bottleneck may not be automation capability but the design of accountable authority.