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In the age of AI, where personal data fuels corporate profits and state surveillance, what are the implications for democracy?
This incisive book explores the unspoken agreement we have with tech companies. In exchange for reducing the anxiety of an increasingly complex online world, we submit to algorithmic classification and predictability. This reduces incentives for us to become “algorithmic problems” with dire consequences for liberal democracy. He calls for a movement to demand that algorithms promote play, creativity and potentiality rather than conformity.
This is a must-read for anyone navigating the intersection of technology, politics and identity in an increasingly data-driven world.
"This short, dense book marries applications of ancient and modern philosophers with the challenges of new technologies and artificial intelligence...Marichal posits that individuals need to seek liberation from the algorithms that narrow the nature of information they receive." CHOICE
Introduction: You Must Remain an Algorithmic Problem
Chapter 1: How Much of a Problem Are We?
Chapter 2: The Politics of Optimization
Chapter 3: The Problem for Democracy
Chapter 4: The Algorithmic Contract and its Discontents
Chapter 5: The Classification Economy
Chapter 6: Optimizing Identity
Chapter 7: Algorithmic Obligation