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Description: This ground-breaking and timely book explores how big data, artificial intelligence and algorithms are creating new types of agency, and the impact that this is having on our lives and the rule of law. Addressing the issues in a thoughtful, cross-disciplinary manner, the authors examine the ways in which data-driven agency is transforming democratic practices and the meaning of individual choice.

Leading scholars in law, philosophy, computer science and politics analyse the latest innovations in data science and machine learning, assessing the actual and potential implications of these technologies. They investigate how this affects our understanding of such concepts as agency, epistemology, justice, transparency and democracy, and advocate a precautionary approach that takes the effects of data-driven agency seriously without taking it for granted.

Scholars and students of law, ethics and philosophy, in particular legal, political and democratic theory, will find this book a compelling and invaluable read, as will computer scientists interested in the implications of their own work. It will also prove insightful for academics and activists working on privacy, fairness and anti-discrimination.

Table of Contents:
Preface xii
1. Introduction: Life and the law in the era of data-driven agency 1
Mireille Hildebrandt and Kieron O’Hara
2. Between the editors 16
Kieron O’Hara and Mireille Hildebrandt

PART I
3. Data-driven agency and knowledge 45
Paul Dumouchel
4. The emergent limbic media system 60
Julie E. Cohen
5. Smart technologies and our sense of self: Going beyond
epistemic counter-profiling 80
Sylvie Delacroix and Michael Veale
6. Rethinking transparency for the Internet of Things 100
m.c. schraefel, Richard Gomer, Enrico Gerding and
Carsten Maple
7. From the digital to a post-digital era? 117
Charles Ess
PART II

8. Do digital technologies put democracy in jeopardy? 135
Gerard de Vries
9. In defence of ‘Toma’: Algorithmic enhancement of a sense of
justice 156
David Stevens
10. The conservative reaction to data-driven agency 175
Kieron O’Hara and Mark Garnett
11. Artificial intelligence, affordances and fundamental rights 194
Christoph B. Graber
12. Throttling machine learning 214
Paul Ohm
13. In the hall of masks: Contrasting modes of personification 230
Niels van Dijk

RESPONSE
14. Life and the law in the era of machine agency 253
Mireille Hildebrandt

Index 265