human systems are all flawed, because the bottom line is: freedom and awareness, there is no way to draft laws that can block them from expanding, even if the pace of expansion is slow but steady. Overlords have therefore figure out that staying ahead of the game is essential to hide the flaws.
Welcoming Our New Algorithmic Overlords?
Algocracy and the moral and political legitimacy of government decision-making
… Dud dates or boring book recommendations are no big deal. But John Danaher, a lecturer in the law school at the National University of Ireland, warns that algorithmic decision-making takes on a very different character when it guides government monitoring and enforcement efforts. Danaher worries that encroaching algorithmic governance, what he calls “algocracy,” could “create problems for the moral or political legitimacy of our public decision-making processes.”
Given algorithms’ successes in the private sector, it is not surprising that government agencies are also implementing algorithmic strategies. The Social Security Administration uses algorithms to aid its agents in evaluating benefits claims; the Internal Revenue Service uses them to select taxpayers for audit; the Food and Drug Administration uses them to study patterns of foodborne illness; the Securities and Exchange Commission uses them to detect trading misconduct; and local police departments employ algorithmic insights to predict both the emergence of crime hotspots and which persons are more likely to be involved in criminal activities…
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