Critiques of AI decision-making systems often highlight the systemic impact of algorithmic biases. In a world where algorithms determine who has access to opportunities and information, they may perpetuate discrimination in who receives healthcare, legal protection, or government employment
Introducing algorithms into existing business and governance mechanisms can result in substantial efficiency gains. Algorithms are getting smarter every day and teaching themselves to make quick and efficient decisions by themselves, leaving humans ‘out of the loop’. Wall Street Journal conducted a recent experiment on Tiktok to determine the power of their AI. They introduced hundreds of bot accounts to the platform, each with diverse interests that were undisclosed to the algorithm. The bots were programmed to pause and repeat certain kinds of videos; within an hour, Tiktok AI had used the behaviour patterns of each bot to determine quite precisely what each account had been programmed to engage with and was serving content aligned with those topics.