
Algorithmic Harm
Protecting People in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 23. July 2025
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Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-19-777820-3 (ISBN)
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Will algorithms help people or hurt them? What about artificial intelligence in general? If consumers know what they need to know and do not suffer from behavioral biases, algorithms and AI are likely to be helpful. Consumers will be more likely to get what they want and need. But if consumers lack information, algorithms in particular will be able to convince them to make harmful or foolish choices. And if consumers suffer from behavioral biases, such as unrealistic optimism or a focus on the short term, algorithms will be able to produce serious harms.
In Algorithmic Harm: Protecting People in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Oren Bar-Gill and Cass Sunstein consider the harms and benefits of AI and algorithms and catalog the different ways in which algorithms are being or may be used in consumer and other markets. The authors identify the market conditions under which these uses injure consumers and consider policy and regulatory responses that could reduce the risks consumers, investors, workers, and voters face now-and in the future. Democracy and self-government are at risk; there is a great deal that can be done to reduce that risk.
In Algorithmic Harm: Protecting People in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Oren Bar-Gill and Cass Sunstein consider the harms and benefits of AI and algorithms and catalog the different ways in which algorithms are being or may be used in consumer and other markets. The authors identify the market conditions under which these uses injure consumers and consider policy and regulatory responses that could reduce the risks consumers, investors, workers, and voters face now-and in the future. Democracy and self-government are at risk; there is a great deal that can be done to reduce that risk.
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Language
English
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New York
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
270 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-777820-3 (9780197778203)
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Persons
Oren Bar-Gill is currently William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School. His scholarship focuses on the law and economics of contracts and contracting. Bar-Gill joined Harvard Law School in July 2014 from New York University School of Law, where he was the Evelyn and Harold Meltzer Professor of Law and Economics. He holds a B.A. (economics), LL.B., M.A. (law & economics) and Ph.D. (economics) from Tel-Aviv University, as well as an LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Bar-Gill is the recipient of the American Law Institute's Young Scholars Medal (in 2011), and of the American Law and Economics Review's Best Paper Prize (2017). He served (together with Omri Ben-Shahar and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler) as Reporter for the Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts. Bar-Gill also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Legal Analysis
Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President's Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board. He has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has advised officials at the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Bank, and many nations on issues of law and public policy. He serves as an adviser to the
Behavioural Insights Team in the United Kingdom.
Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President's Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board. He has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has advised officials at the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Bank, and many nations on issues of law and public policy. He serves as an adviser to the
Behavioural Insights Team in the United Kingdom.
Author
William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law and EconomicsWilliam J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School
Robert Walmsley ProfessorRobert Walmsley Professor, Harvard University
Content
Introduction
Part I: Algorithmic Harm in Consumer Markets
Chapter 1: Algorithmic Price Discrimination
Chapter 2: Algorithmic Price Discrimination: Extensions
Chapter 3: Algorithmic Targeting
Chapter 4: Algorithmically-Enhanced Misperceptions
Chapter 5: Algorithmic Coordination
Chapter 6: Race and Sex Discrimination
Chapter 7: Consumer-Side Algorithms
Part II: Policy and Law
Chapter 8: Regulating Preconditions for Algorithmic Harm
Chapter 9: The Right to Algorithmic Transparency
Chapter 10: Ex Post Policing and Ex Ante Regulation
Chapter 11: Applying the Reforms to the Different Harm Categories
Part III: Beyond Consumer Markets
Chapter 12: Labor Markets
Chapter 13: Political Markets
Conclusion
Bibliography
Part I: Algorithmic Harm in Consumer Markets
Chapter 1: Algorithmic Price Discrimination
Chapter 2: Algorithmic Price Discrimination: Extensions
Chapter 3: Algorithmic Targeting
Chapter 4: Algorithmically-Enhanced Misperceptions
Chapter 5: Algorithmic Coordination
Chapter 6: Race and Sex Discrimination
Chapter 7: Consumer-Side Algorithms
Part II: Policy and Law
Chapter 8: Regulating Preconditions for Algorithmic Harm
Chapter 9: The Right to Algorithmic Transparency
Chapter 10: Ex Post Policing and Ex Ante Regulation
Chapter 11: Applying the Reforms to the Different Harm Categories
Part III: Beyond Consumer Markets
Chapter 12: Labor Markets
Chapter 13: Political Markets
Conclusion
Bibliography