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The Threat of Algocracy: Reality, Resistance and Accommodation
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“Another point is that increased used of data, and the translation of all aspects of human action into data is that such quantification by necessity involves multiple stages of human interpretation, challenging the objective veneer of big data-based decision making [21,34,36].”
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“Whether we like it or not, algorithms are increasingly being used to nudge, bias, guide, provoke, control, manipulate and constrain human behaviour.”
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“In public-law terms, the concern is not only whether AI improves efficiency but also whether algorithmic assistance remains compatible with accountable justification, discretionary control, and rule-of-law legitimacy (Danaher, 2016;Binns, 2018;Busuioc, 2021).”
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“In this sense, Cognitive Sovereignty responds to the threat of algocracy: the risk that governance becomes dependent on decision systems whose operation is not meaningfully contestable by the persons subject to them (Danaher, 2016).”
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“This may lead to ‘algocracy’, in which ‘the legitimacy of public decision-making processes’ is thwarted by ‘the opacity of certain algocratic governance systems’ (Danaher, 2016).”
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“For example, as mentioned in [28], 'the human may want to guard against certain kinds of discrimination, and their notion of fairness may be too abstract to be completely encoded into the system'”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Danaher, J.
- Affiliations
- Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway (IE)
- Corresponding author
- Danaher, John
- ORCID
- Danaher, John
- Venue
- Philosophy & Technology
- Published
- 2016-01-09
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 245-268
- ISSN
- 2210-5433 (ISSN-L)
- 2210-5441
- OpenAlex
- W2242985385
- Cited by
- 519
- References
- 72
- Citations by year
- 2026: 85 · 2025: 57 · 2024: 59 · 2023: 64 · 2022: 74 · 2021: 58 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 36 · 2018: 27 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 6
- FWCI
- 66.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- philarchive.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Philosophy & Technology (publishedVersion)
- PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Theory and Democracy
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › E-Government and Public Services
- Keywords
- algocracy, algorithmic governance, algorithmic decision-making, political legitimacy, epistocracy, public decision-making, human participation, social decision-making
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