>In particular, many readers may disagree that the algorithms made independent decisions, and may insist that everything the algorithms did was the result of code written by human engineers and of business models adopted by human executives. This book begs to differ
the algo's literally just "bump clickbait" and ragebait tends to be clickbait, there's no spook in the machine going "hmm today i will promote extremist content"
>Human soldiers are shaped by their genetic code and follow orders issued by executives, yet they can still make independent decisions. The same is true of AI algorithms. They can learn by themselves things that no human engineer programmed, and they can decide things that no human executive foresaw
alternatively, those engineers and executives are just retarded