Are Your Beliefs Your Own? Algorithms And The Theft Of Thought

The data you generate and hand over today is being processed by vested interests to not only anticipate and influence but also manipulate your future beliefs.

If you are not a marketer, advertiser, or an AI ethicist, I am willing to bet the boat that you’ve never heard of these terms: “behavioral twin”, “algorithmic nudge” (or the “Nudge Theory”), and “dark patterns”. As a consumer, though, you need to be acutely aware of what exactly each of those terms means.

At the outset, let me say this: I am not an alar…