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

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Hannah Pollin-Galay is Senior Lecturer of Yiddish and Holocaust Studies in the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University and author of Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place and Holocaust ...

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