Humanity and Algorithmic Power

Artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and data infrastructures are transforming how people work, communicate, consume, and make decisions. This book examines the relationship between money, data, algorithmic power, and human freedom, arguing that technology must remain a means for human flourishing rather than reducing people to profiles, scores, and predictable behaviours. By exploring digital money, cryptocurrencies, and central bank digital currencies, it highlights both the promise of faster payments and more effective public support, and the risks of financial surveillance and concentrated data power. Ultimately, Humanity and Algorithmic Power calls for a renewed humanism in the age of AI, grounded in dignity, privacy, responsibility, creativity, and democratic control over technological systems.