New Challenges for Accountability: Populism and Algorithmocracy
This article looks at how populism and artificial intelligence systems challenge the functioning of the institutional network of accountability in representative democracies. For the former, populist governments erode accountability; as for the latter, the institutional network fails to make artific...
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| Format: | Article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication date: | 2021 |
| Country: | México |
| Institution: | UNAM |
| Repository: | Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/79322 |
| Online Access: | https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmcpys/article/view/79322 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | rendición de cuentas democracia populismo algoritmos inteligencia artificial. accountability democracy populism algorithms artificial intelligence. |
| Summary: | This article looks at how populism and artificial intelligence systems challenge the functioning of the institutional network of accountability in representative democracies. For the former, populist governments erode accountability; as for the latter, the institutional network fails to make artificial intelligence systems accountable. Currently, the available evidence indicates that both processes are independent. However, an eventual overlap would lead to accountability in hitherto unknown places. |
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