Abstract

AVARO, Dante  and  SANCHEZ Y SANCHEZ, Carlos Luis. New Challenges for Accountability in Times of the Pandemic: Populism and Algorithmocracy. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2021, vol.66, n.242, pp.167-187.  Epub Oct 25, 2021. ISSN 0185-1918.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.2448492xe.2021.242.79322.

This article looks at how populism and artificial intelligence systems challenge the functioning of the institutional network of accountability in representative democracies. For the former, populist governments erode accountability; as for the latter, the institutional network fails to make artificial intelligence systems accountable. Currently, the available evidence indicates that both processes are independent. However, an eventual overlap would lead to accountability in hitherto unknown places.

Keywords : accountability; democracy; populism; algorithms; artificial intelligence.

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