{"id":198315,"date":"2026-03-23T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/administrative-law-and-ais-overconfidence\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:30:10","slug":"administrative-law-and-ais-overconfidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/administrative-law-and-ais-overconfidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Administrative Law and AI\u2019s Overconfidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregreview.org\/2026\/03\/23\/coglianese-administrative-law-and-ais-overconfidence\/\">Administrative Law and AI\u2019s Overconfidence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregreview.org\/2026\/03\/23\/coglianese-administrative-law-and-ais-overconfidence\/\">https:\/\/www.theregreview.org\/2026\/03\/23\/coglianese-administrative-law-and-ais-overconfidence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-23 00:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theregreview.org\">www.theregreview.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Overconfidence<\/strong>: Like overly confident individuals who give confident but often incorrect opinions, AI can provide assured answers that are not always accurate or contextually appropriate.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Regulatory Decision-Making<\/strong>: For consequential administrative decisions, such as setting environmental standards, the U.S. Administrative Procedure Act (APA) mandates decisions based on sound evidence and careful analysis rather than unverified AI-generated recommendations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Limitations<\/strong>: AI like ChatGPT provides answers based on text patterns rather than real-world evidence, making it unsuitable on its own for making significant regulatory decisions without thorough validation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Validation Requirement<\/strong>: Agencies must validate AI-generated results for complex policy decisions by conducting regulatory impact analysis, similar to traditional methods to ensure decisions withstand judicial scrutiny under the arbitrary-and-capricious standard.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Case Examples<\/strong>: Over-reliance on AI in government efforts, like the Department of Government Efficiency&#8217;s VA contract review, resulted in incorrect decisions highlighting the risks of unvalidated AI use.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong>: While AI can assist in routine administrative tasks, it should not replace comprehensive analysis and validation for major regulatory decision-making, which still requires human expertise and judgment based on tangible outcomes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Administrative Law and AI\u2019s Overconfidence https:\/\/www.theregreview.org\/2026\/03\/23\/coglianese-administrative-law-and-ais-overconfidence\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-23 00:14:00 Source Domain: www.theregreview.org AI Overconfidence:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.theregreview.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/coglianese-182859572.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198317,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198315\/revisions\/198317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}