Experts Warned Us About Algorithms but Missed the Kids

if we allow algorithms to raise our children, we will not simply lose a generation, we will lose the very qualities that hold America—and humanity—together.

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Commentary

For more than a decade, experts have warned us about the dangers of algorithms. In 2015, Frank Pasquale—a legal scholar and expert on law in relation to artificial intelligence—cautioned in “The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information” that “authority is increasingly expressed algorithmically.”