Such a hybrid, automanual system is certainly viable, and your analogy to laws being rules and judges being interpreters is reasonable. In that context, consid

Such a hybrid, automanual system is certainly viable, and your analogy to laws being rules and judges being interpreters is reasonable. In that context, consider that a single law, "do the right thing," might require too many judges and might produce too inconsistent of outcomes to work well. "The right thing" may have to be better defined. Similarly for company policy, it is not the automation used to express bad, ill-defined, or secretive policy that's the problem. The problem is the policy itself.