Governing by Algorithms: Eduardo Albrecht’s Diagnosis of Institutions in the Age of AI

Key Notes

• AI systems embedded in public administration are increasingly exercising decision-making authority at a speed and scale that existing democratic institutions were not designed to govern at.

• The growing fusion of public institutions and private technology firms has diffused political power and weakened traditional mechanisms of accountability and citizen influence.

• Proposals for new institutional forms, such as a Third House and digitally mediated civic participation, emerge from the claim that democratic legitimacy cannot be sustained without adapting institutional design to algorithmic governance.

Watch the full interview with Professor Albrecht’s around his latest book, Political Automation - Oxford University Press.