Life by Algorithms: When Automation Replaces Judgment — Algorithmic Bureaucracy

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

This episode explores Life by Algorithms, edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson, as a systems-level examination of algorithmic bureaucracy.

Rather than treating algorithms as neutral tools that merely improve efficiency, this analysis examines how automated systems encode institutional incentives, reshape human decision-making, and transfer accountability into opaque technological processes.

What begins as a promise of objectivity becomes a broader examination of surveillance, metrics, automated governance, and the hidden labor required to keep highly optimized systems functioning when reality refuses to conform to the model.

Topics include:

• Roboprocesses and automated bureaucracy
• Weapons of Math Destruction
• Surveillance capitalism and behavioral data extraction
• Predictive policing and algorithmic governance
• The hidden labor behind automation
• Metrics, incentives, and institutional power

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