Five years into the Algorithms, Data and Democracy project, the project’s leadership has written a collection of essays about the societies that these technologies are reshaping. It is about who sets the direction, who reaps the benefits, who bears the costs, and which institutions either bend, falter, or hold firm. A shared recognition runs across the contributions: Algorithms, data, and AI are not something that comes from the outside and strikes democracy like a weather phenomenon. They are woven into our political economy, into our institutions, into our infrastructures, and into our ideas of what a society even is.
