Summary

Part II, which is titled “The Political Challenge,” begins with Chapter 5, which is titled “Community,” and subtitled “Humans Have Bodies.” The author begins this chapter with a description of how Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg committed the company to strengthening human communities, and how that both the intention and the practice of that commitment were undermined by Facebook selling the data of its users. The author then references the importance of communities throughout human history, and suggests that if AI and algorithms in general, and Facebook in particular, are going to be used to build and strengthen communities, they need to prove themselves more effective at solving social problems. The author goes on to suggest that the core issue that Facebook and other tech giants need to understand is that “humans have bodies” (92), and are more than just their eyes, fingers, and...