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According to a 2016's book [[Weapons of Math Destruction]], algorithms and [[big data]] are suspected to increase inequality due to opacity, scale and damage.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Verma |first1=Shikha |title=Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy |journal=Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers |date=June 2019 |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=97–98 |doi=10.1177/0256090919853933 |s2cid=198779932 |issn=0256-0909|doi-access=free }}</ref>

A 2021 article published in the [[Annual Review of Sociology]], explored the social implications of the widespread use of algorithms in modern institutions. The authors introduced the concepts of "coding elite" and "cybertariat" to describe, respectively, those who control digital means of production (e.g., software developers, tech CEOs, investors, and computer science and engineering professors) and those who are exploited by them (e.g., platform workers, precarious workers, unpaid users, and content moderators).<ref>{{Cite journal|title=The Society of Algorithms|last=Burrell|first=Jenna|last2=Fourcade|first2=Marion|journal=Annual Review of Sociology|doi=10.1146/annurev-soc-090820-020800|year=2021|volume=47|pages=213-237|doi-access=free}}</ref>

There is also a serious concern that [[gaming the system|gaming]] by the regulated parties might occur, once more [[Right to explanation|transparency is brought into the decision making by algorithmic governance]], regulated parties might try to manipulate their outcome in own favor and even use [[adversarial machine learning]].<ref name=sstandford/><ref name=socialmachine/> According to [[Yuval Noah Harari|Harari]], the conflict between democracy and dictatorship is seen as a conflict of two different data-processing systems—AI and algorithms may swing the advantage toward the latter by processing enormous amounts of information centrally.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Harari |first1=Story by Yuval Noah |title=Why Technology Favors Tyranny |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/ |access-date=11 April 2020 |work=The Atlantic}}</ref>