Algorithms and Us
No. 131 MAY 2023
Used as a mathematical concept since time immemorial, it was first coined in the 9th century and later introduced into computing procedures. The word algorithm today proliferates in many social spheres: from school results and human resources management to financial credit, from policing cities to decision-making by lawyers and judges.
This essay analyses the social life of algorithms and the urgency of literacy in Artificial Intelligence technologies. When government by algorithms, algocracy, establishes new and complex dependencies between science, technology, politics and economics, it begs the question: what risks are individuals and communities exposed to? Should this proliferation of algorithms be regulated by public authorities? And in what terms?
Book recommended by the National Reading Plan.
Used as a mathematical concept since time immemorial, it was first coined in the 9th century and later introduced into computing procedures. The word algorithm today proliferates in many social spheres: from school results and human resources management to financial credit, from policing cities to decision-making by lawyers and judges.
This essay analyses the social life of algorithms and the urgency of literacy in Artificial Intelligence technologies. When government by algorithms, algocracy, establishes new and complex dependencies between science, technology, politics and economics, it begs the question: what risks are individuals and communities exposed to? Should this proliferation of algorithms be regulated by public authorities? And in what terms?
Book recommended by the National Reading Plan.
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Dimensions
8 × 130 × 200 mm
ISBN
978-989-9118-82-9