Una giustizia senza volto?

Emmanuel Levinas e i limiti etici della giustizia predittiva

Abstract

The article examines the ethical and legal implications of predictive justice, questioning the assumption of calculability underlying algorithmic decision-making. The analysis shows that such models translate concrete cases into statistical correlations, replacing the argumentative and responsive structure of judgment with a retrospective inferential procedure. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas’s reflection, the paper argues that this operation suppresses the diachronic dimension of responsibility, grounded in the irreducible alterity of the face, thereby reconfiguring judgment as probabilistic application. It follows that predictive justice does not merely assist judicial reasoning but tends to reshape the structure of judgment.