Once algorithms mediate communication, employment, welfare, policing and public discourse, they become political institutions. The power structure is feudal, comprising a small corporate elite that holds decision-making power justified by special expertise and the imagined urgency of existential risk, while citizens and taxpayers are told they... See more

Rather than picturing intelligence as an abstract, disembodied capacity to optimize across all domains, they treat it as a relational and embodied capacity bound to specific contexts.