The Conquest of Fortune: On the Machiavellian Character of Algorithmic Judgment

• Autores: Daniel Doneson
• Localización: Social research: An international quarterly of the social sciences, ISSN 0037-783X, Nº. 4, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Persons without Qualities: Algorithms, AI, and the Reshaping of Ourselves), págs. 871-883
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Algorithmic judgment is the latest, most comprehensive version of modern rational control, an effort to master Fortuna by means of science and its fruits, technology. The origins of this moral and political ideal date to the dawn of modernity and Machiavelli’s The Prince. Comparing Fortuna with a blind force, Machiavelli holds that the right stance towards her is not deference but audacious opposition. Mastery requires the unflinching exercise of our reason and innovation, and ushers in a profound simplification of our world and ourselves. It yields characteristic instruments and techniques, that, like algorithms, do not so much reflect our reason or require our virtue as seek to replace them.