arxivcs.CYcs.AIcs.ETcs.SIeess.SY2026-07-20
Governing Well in the Algorithmic Age: The Foundations of Digital Statecraft
Zeynep Engin, Tim Gordon, Viviana Bastidas, Tom Crick, Jon Crowcroft, Jean-Martin Denis, et al.
The digital substrate of states -- data, algorithms, infrastructure, platforms, applications -- is being governed without adequate conceptual foundations. The ability and legitimacy required to govern this substrate, and to govern with it, are simultaneously misaligned, contested…