When a machine sentences a human being, who carries the guilt? The Algorithmic Judges puts twelve literary masters — Seneca, Agatha Christie, Camus, Victor Hugo, Böll, Coetzee, Shaw, Sartre, Eco, Carver, Vargas Llosa, Djebar, Greene — into direct conversation with the algorithms now deciding who gets bail, who gets a loan, who gets asylum, who gets to keep their children. Each chapter pairs a rigorous author profile with an original short story written in that writer's exact voice. Seneca writes stoic letters to an AI that has scored his sister unworthy of citizenship. Agatha Christie's detective untangles a murder hidden inside a content-moderation algorithm. Camus's narrator is condemned for a crime he hasn't committed yet — and has three weeks to decide what freedom means. A border officer in a Graham Greene story overrides a biased asylum denial and waits to see what it costs him. This isn't a tech ethics primer dressed up in costume. It's an argument, made the only way literature can make it: through people, choices, and consequences you feel before you can explain them. Every story closes with discussion questions that turn abstract debates about fairness and bias into something you can actually use — in a classroom, a reading group, or your own reckoning with the machines already judging you. Grounded in real cases — COMPAS, Robert Williams' wrongful arrest, Arkansas's Medicaid algorithm, Chicago's heat list — and framed by the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism, this volume asks the question no engineering team can answer alone: can mathematics ever deliver justice, or only its appearance? Volume 2 of the Digital Humanism Stories Collection. Read it before the verdict is already in.