The Normative Turn of Algorithmic Identity: Sociotechnological Myths and the Calculated Self
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper argues that artificial intelligence produces the normative frameworks through which individuals become legible, actionable and governable. Building on the tripartite model of digital identity (declarative, acting and calculated identity) proposed in Réseaux in 2009, it shows how AI-based systems have shifted the balance between these three dimensions, to the point where calculated identity prevails over the two others. The subject is neither author nor actor of this identity: she becomes an object of computation, and the authority to define personhood is delegated to systems whose criteria remain opaque to her. Drawing on the social construction of sociotechnological myths, the paper examines the narratives that legitimise this normative turn and its consequences for identity, which tends to become a technical output.
Source: HAL
Author: Georges, Fanny
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7223079157