Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better?

In an interview in May, the head of the Israeli military intelligence’s targeting division responded to outrage over the civilian death toll in Gaza by boasting that algorithmic surveillance systems ...

Alex Shams is a writer and anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in New York Magazine, The New Republic, and elsewhere. A political and literary forum, ...

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Sarah Myers West is Co-Executive Director of the AI Now Institute and serves on the OECD’s Expert Group on AI Futures.

Audrey Tang is Cyber Ambassador-at-large of Taiwan, where she previously served as the first Minister of Digital Affairs. She is coauthor, with E. Glen Weyl, of Plurality: The Future of Collaborative ...

Stephen M. Meyer is a professor of political science at MIT and the director of the MIT Project on Environmental Politics and Policy.

Chris Lebron is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and author of The Making Of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea.

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Toussaint Losier is Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and coauthor of Rethinking the American Prison Movement. Rev. William J. Barber II on civil ...

Calvin TerBeek is a PhD student in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago whose work focuses on postwar movement conservatism.