ABSTRACT
Judgment as technology is perhaps not the most obvious sense in which we might understand either judgment or technology. This chapter briefly looks at ideas of biopolitics, which is an area of concern that comes out of the work of Foucault, as well as more recent developments, notably by people like Giorgio Agamben. It looks at the implications for judgment of using algorithms or artificial intelligence to try and automate judicial outcomes. The technology of judgment is enabled or underpinned by the technologies of language. This central place of language within practices of judgment has a number of effects. Bureaucracy is a set of practices and hierarchical organisations that revolve around or are underpinned by the use of written documents and files.
