AI and Society

This English companion edition makes the project internationally readable while preserving the structure of the German compendium. It follows the same sequence of preliminary pieces, paragraphs, bibliography, AI notice, and legal pages. German pages remain the fuller working text; the English pages now carry the Round 3 argument through § 17 in condensed form and will continue to grow in parallel as Round 4 proceeds.

The project develops a Weber-inspired sociology of algorithmic orders. Its question is not whether AI is good or bad in general, but how meaning, action, order, legitimacy, responsibility, association, power, and domination are reshaped when algorithmic systems become socially consequential.

Chapter I

1. Preliminary PiecesMethodological opening before Chapter I
2. § 1. Concept of Sociology and of the Meaning of Algorithmically Mediated ActionMeaning, interpretation, and the boundary between action and system output
3. § 2. Determining Grounds of Algorithmically Co-formed Social ActionA typology of motives under prediction, ranking, and routine
4. § 3. The Algorithmically Mediated Social RelationshipRelationships, asymmetries, and the limits of reciprocity
5. § 4. Types of Social Action: Routine, Prompt, Feedback, TrainingPractice forms through which algorithmic order becomes ordinary
6. § 5. Concept of Legitimate Algorithmic OrderAccuracy, procedure, expertise, utility, and habituation as grounds of recognition
7. § 6. Types of Legitimate Algorithmic Order: Convention, Law, CodeRound 3 companion: carriers of order, code, law, standards, and platform rules
8. § 7. Grounds of Validity of Algorithmic OrderRound 3 companion: habituation, objectivity belief, enactment, success, and inevitability
9. § 8. Concept of Algorithmic StruggleRound 3 companion: struggles over visibility, data, interpretation, and model power
10. § 9. Algorithmic Communalization and AssociationRound 3 companion: belonging, platform association, and simulated closeness
11. § 10. Open and Closed Algorithmic RelationshipsRound 3 companion: access, closure, open production, and proprietary control
12. § 11. Attribution of Algorithmically Co-caused ActionRound 3 companion: responsibility, many hands, audit, and attribution chains
13. § 12. Concept and Types of Algorithmic AssociationsRound 3 companion: platform, data, model, research, administrative, and enterprise associations
14. § 13. Orders of an Algorithmic AssociationRound 3 companion: access, data, training, use, moderation, sanction, and explanation
15. § 14. Administrative Order and Regulatory Order of Algorithmic SystemsRound 3 companion: internal governance, external regulation, audit, and standards
16. § 15. Enterprise, Platform, Model InstitutionRound 3 companion: organizational carriers of algorithmic order
17. § 16. Power and Algorithmic DominationRound 3 companion: classification, prediction, recommendation, exclusion, and binding decisions
18. § 17. Political Association and Epistemic AssociationRound 3 companion: public authority, private platform orders, model communities, and AI regimes