This book provides a range of critical essays examining the use of algorithms to regulate various aspects of contemporary life, and the need to regulate these algorithmic systems, drawing from a broad range of disciplinary expertise.
Apart from the breadth and high substantive quality of its individual chapters, Algorithmic Regulation is a fascinating volume in that it crosses a wide spectrum of positions on these questions, both implicitly and explicitly. This makes it an invaluable marker of the current state of thinking in this fundamental and rapidly developing field, the next chapter of which is likely to be dominated by the European Commission's proposed AI regulation.
Karen Yeung is Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics at Birmingham Law School & School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham. She is also Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Melbourne Law School. Martin Lodge is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (carr) at the London School of Economics and Political Science.