Algorithmic Risk and Autonomous Agency in the Context of Modernity
The highly complex trends of globalization and the anti-globalization are intertwined to form the reality we must face and deal with;it gives value to humankind in an open way,but also throws risks and costs to us in a hidden form.From the Industrialism Age to the Intelligent Age,modern risks have been given a transformative spreading strength and scope,natural risks have given way to artificial risks,and a single local risk can be evolved into uncontrollable risks on a global scale.As the algorithmic technology penetrates increasingly deeply into individual's daily life and the social public sphere,a new type of algorithmic risks and a kind of monopoly algorithmic power have emerged,endangering individual autonomy,senses of identity and the practical ability of collective action.The notions of"risk"and"risk society"developed by Beck and Giddens are not barely value-neutral descrip-tive terms,but imply a normative presupposition:the harm of the power structure of risk distribution and allotment to individual and collective autonomy.On the one hand,from Baker-Giddens's classic conceptual framework of risk society,we can grasp the nature of algorithmic risk;on the other hand,we also need to break through this framework to provide a justified ethical critique for understanding and regulating algorithmic risk and algorithmic power at the normative level of autonomous agency.
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