Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

We want to act in ways that will be understandable to machines, and we also want our machines to act in ways that are “legible” to us.

Are organisms really just algorithms, and is life really just data processing? 2. What’s more valuable – intelligence or consciousness? 3. What will happen to society, politics and daily life when non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms know us better than we know ourselves?