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Machines That Decide: How Automated Systems Influence Finance, Politics, and Business
Paperback
Series: AI Control and Economic Power, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 11 2026
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Machines That Decide examines how automated systems are reshaping finance, politics, and business through invisible yet powerful forms of digital judgement. Credit scoring, algorithmic trading, fraud monitoring, insurance pricing, recruitment software, workplace surveillance, dynamic pricing, voter targeting, public administration tools, and generative AI now influence decisions once made through direct human judgement. Alessio Faccia analyses how these systems classify people, rank opportunities, structure markets, and affect public trust.
A strong analytical lens runs through the book. Readers are guided from the rise of formal rules and predictive models into the deeper mechanics of automated power. Financial systems are examined through lending, portfolio allocation, trading behaviour, compliance, and risk classification. Political chapters address data-driven campaigning, behavioural influence, digital surveillance, manipulated information, and the fragility of electoral trust. Business chapters focus on hiring systems, performance scoring, customer profiling, supply chains, pricing engines, and executive dashboards. Later sections confront bias, opacity, accountability, regulation, explainability, market concentration, and the next generation of generative AI systems.
Clear language meets serious depth. The book does not treat automation as a neutral technical upgrade. A harder claim is developed throughout. Machines do not decide alone. Institutions define the objectives, the data, the thresholds, the acceptable errors, and the social trade-offs. A machine-driven outcome may look objective, yet it often reflects hidden assumptions about value, risk, performance, fairness, and control.
Readers interested in artificial intelligence, algorithmic decision-making, digital governance, financial technology, political communication, business strategy, and platform power will find a tightly structured analysis of how automated systems now shape modern life. Practical examples are used across banking, insurance, elections, public administration, labour management, and platform markets, making the argument relevant to academics, professionals, policymakers, auditors, students, and strategic decision-makers.
Machines That Decide is a timely study of automated power in action. It shows how algorithms affect who gets credit, who gets hired, what people pay, what voters see, what governments know, and how businesses govern workers and consumers. Most importantly, it asks a difficult question many institutions would rather avoid. When machines influence outcomes at scale, who remains responsible, who keeps the right to
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