Citations:algocracy

English citations of algocracy

• 2006, A. Aneesh, Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 5:

  Programming languages—rather understudied components of transnational work—appear to be the key organizing structures behind this emerging space, which in itself is neither national nor global. Instead it is symptomatic of a new kind of power, what I call algocracy—rule of the algorithm, or rule of the code, which perhaps constitutes the key difference between the current and previous rounds of global integration.

• 2006, A. Aneesh, Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 132:

  The rule of code or algocracy thus adds a third dimension to the already existing bureaucratic and panoptic systems of governance.

• 2016 January, John Danaher, “The Threat of Algocracy: Reality, Resistance and Accommodation”, in Philosophy & Technology‎^[1], volume 29, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 245–268:

  Using David Estlund’s (1993; 2003; 2008) threat of epistocracy argument as my model, I argue that increasing reliance on algorithms gives rise to the threat of algocracy—a situation in which algorithm-based systems structure and constrain the opportunities for human participation in, and comprehension of, public decision-making.

• 2018 September 26, Steven Poole, “Against Creativity by Oli Mould review – the dullest of jobs is now ‘creative’”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

  We now live in what Mould calls their “algocracy”, a world invisibly nudged by unaccountable algorithms that tend to “erode any sense of collective sociality and create personal filter bubbles”.

• 2022, Shannon Vallor, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 269:

  In addition to remembering the complex relationship between freedom and algocracy, it is also worth remembering, and avoiding, the “status quo” bias in how we think about that relationship (Bostrom and Ord 2006).