What is Algorithmic Governance?

By Shiv Issar, A. Aneesh, December 9, 2021

ICLC comments and emphasis added:

This article contributes a coherent framework to the rich literature emerging in the field of algorithmic governance (communitarian ‘algocracy’) while also resolving conflicting understandings. Tracing the history of algorithmic governance to the broad architecture of the universal Turing Machine, the article identifies a common thread of critical concern in the literature on algorithmic governance: the growing institutional capabilities to move contestable issues to a space of reduced negotiability (communitarian manufactured consent!) raising questions of social asymmetry, inequity, and inequality. Within the social context of algorithmic governance, the article highlights three general areas of concern where the social negotiability of processes is threatened: the problem of power (surveillance), discrimination (social bias), and identification (system identity).

https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/soc4.12955

ICLC Editor’s Note: While the communitarian law system is being promoted as a system of ‘equality’ and ‘democracy’ that is ‘community’-oriented, research and experience have already been showing for a whole while that the reality is very different.

On the contrary, political communitarianism, its dialectic, its merging of ‘communism’ and ‘capitalism’, and its increasing adoption of and reliance on automation, algorithms and ‘artificial intelligence’, make this political religion the most centralized, transhumanist, and scientifically oppressive system of (unelected) governance that society has ever allowed to emerge.