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What If Judges Had to ‘Show Their Work’ in Rulings? (Full Transcript)
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A reflection on decision transparency, human bias in judging, and why datasets may make reasoning easier to trace than the human mind.
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What If Judges Had to Show Their Work
Added on 06/24/2026
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[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Imagine if human arbitrators or human judges had to show the work of their brain in making decisions. If a human judge had to say, yeah, this is how I got from point A to point B, instead of just writing down what they said the answer was, we'd be interesting. As somebody who reviewed the decisions of human judges for 10 years, I love judges, some of my best friends are judges, they're human beings. And they too have biases. And it is sometimes easier to show your work with a data set than it is with a human brain.
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The speaker reflects on the value of transparency in decision-making, suggesting it would be revealing if human judges had to explicitly explain the mental steps from evidence to verdict. Drawing on a decade of reviewing judicial decisions, they note that judges are human, can hold biases, and that articulating reasoning may be easier with an AI/data-driven system than with the opaque processes of the human mind.
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- Requiring decision-makers to ‘show their work’ would expose how conclusions are reached.
- Human judges, like all people, can be influenced by biases.
- Explaining a decision path may be more straightforward with datasets/logs than with human cognition.
- Calls for transparency apply to both human and algorithmic decision-making.
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