Do Algorithms Manipulate Human Thoughts in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jbdc.202401119

Author(s)

Qian Chen

Affiliation(s)

School of Digital Arts, Chengdu Vocational University of the Arts, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Abstract

This essay will examine the impact of algorithms and artificial intelligence on social media, with a particular focus on the potential to influence human thoughts. Taking Facebook and Cambridge Analytica data scandal as main example to argue that algorithms could influence humans' behavior and self-consciousness to different degrees.

Keywords

Algorithm; Social Media; Self-Consciousness; News Feed

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