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Lords of the Algorithm. The Power of Ideas.

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Over eight episodes, Mariana Mortágua reflects on social media, artificial intelligence, and the authoritarian dystopias enacted by the world's richest men.
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There is a new kind of political personality that seems to have been born just to exist on a screen. Devoted to the algorithm, they don't need to know if a statement is true, fair or intellectually honest. They just need to predict if someone will click on it, comment on it, share it, get angry with it or come back tomorrow to consume more.

As adults, we have the ungrateful but untenable challenge of not turning off the artificial intelligence of the take, because this would be an illusion as great as the one she creates herself. But we can delay the entry of children into a child centered on the screen, limit access to LLMs and defend the free, ugly and glorious play that develops what no algorithm can teach: real friendships, empathy, tolerance to frustration, identity

·Portugal
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Over eight episodes, Mariana Mortágua reflects on social media, artificial intelligence, and the authoritarian dystopias enacted by the world's richest men.

·Lisboa, Portugal
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Publico broke the news in Lisboa, Portugal on Wednesday, September 2, 2026.
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