Platforms, algorithms and AI: Issues and hypotheses in the mediatization perspective

Interactional digital algorithm 343 the proposal for the Montevideo Declaration on Artificial Intelligence. An excellent set of thirteen propositions – a true “Triscaid- ecalogue,” considering the number of proposals. I’ll mention just two to illustrate the focus and diversity of perspectives: Number 1 - Every algorithm produces bias, al- ways! Not all of them should be implemented. Let us be able to say no and produce our own biases. [ N .. u .] mber 7 - The regulation of social media plat- forms (which produce action from the intertwined agency of users WITH their AI algorithms) must be thought through and implemented. They constitute the new public sphere and affect the “commons”. Jairo Ferreira, in an article presented to Compós’ Epistemology WG in 2020, points out the risk of “imposing ways of doing things”: The appropriation of social algorithms by the field of digital algorithm production [can lead to] muta- tions in modes of production and, through these mutations, transformations in social relations, af- fecting interactions (p. 11). In another excerpt from the same article mentioned above, Harari (2023) points out risks to democracy: Democracy is a conversation, conversation de- pends on language, and when language itself is hacked, the conversation is interrupted, and democracy becomes unsustainable. If we wait for chaos to set in, it will be too late to remedy it. (p. 4). What characterizes the balance between social trans- formation and the pursuit of possible stability in society, is the tension between variations produced in different environments, at differentiated levels of scope, which interact and compete with their distinct objectives to be selected for a stable (always temporary) insertion into the social fabric. The ways in which

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