Ghost in the machine: ideological critique of algortihmic justice

KRIŠTOFÍK, Andrej. Ghost in the machine: ideological critique of algortihmic justice. In Critical Legal Conference 2023. 2023.

Basic information

• Original name: Ghost in the machine: ideological critique of algortihmic justice
• Authors: KRIŠTOFÍK, Andrej.
• Edition: Critical Legal Conference 2023, 2023.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 50501 Law
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Organization unit: Faculty of Law
• Keywords in English: ideology; legal theory; critical theory; algorithms; algorithmic justice; language models
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The language of locking and cementing ideologies, suggested by OpenAI in their accompanying paper to the GPT model 4, has been poorly chosen. However, it does point to an issue, that is interesting and forms the subject of following article – namely the issue of algorithms as (the expressions of) ideology par excellence. Conversely, Žižek warns us that anything designated as ideology par excellence has its inversion that is no less ideological.2 In the subject matter of the following article, there is no inversion in true sense. The concept of algorithmic justice is a mere next natural move of “human” justice, further expressing its inherent purely ideological nature.

Links

• MUNI/A/1383/2022, interní kód MU: Name: Když se ideologie berou vážně: kritické a metodologické aspekty ideologie práva

Investor: Masaryk University, Taking Ideologies Seriously: Critical and Methodological Aspects of Legal Ideology