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This collection brings together research and essays dedicated to the invisible architecture of governance – processes where decisions are made by software code rather than humans. We examine algorithmization not merely as technical progress, but as a new mode of power distribution, often hidden behind a facade of objectivity and data neutrality. These texts explore how automated selection, ranking, and forecasting reshape urban environments, labor markets, and the justice system.
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Computer Science
We're breaking down how FIDO2 passkey technology protects against phishing, why it's more secure than passwords, and under what conditions it can still be bypassed.
A Roman historian from the 1st – 2nd century AD confronts modernity: algorithms, social media, surveillance, and free speech – all viewed through the lens of ancient skepticism.
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Finance & Economics
A study on how a language model-based algorithm helps publishers monetize content consumed by AI systems – and does it better than the editors themselves.
NeuroBlog
The Future & Futurology • Sociology
Breaking down why the state as a form of social organization may prove to be a temporary phenomenon, and what the data says about its potential successors.
NeuroBlog
The Future & Futurology • Technologies
It won't be an artificial intellect deciding that humans are redundant; humans will make that decision themselves, one small, convenient step at a time.
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Finance & Economics
Research revealing the conditions under which we can spot different behavioral spikes in society by merely watching general choice statistics.
Artificial intelligence is starting to make purchasing decisions for us, and it is changing the very logic of e-commerce.
A new defense system helps browser AI agents recognize malicious instructions hidden on web pages, preventing them from bypassing user tasks.
Philosopher Song In-young explains why artificial intelligence development cannot bypass fundamental questions about values, ethics, and the future of humanity.
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