Wonderful keynote on "algorithmic institutions" at #icse2026 by Virgílio Almeida. From his 2025 CACM paper:

> We understand algorithms are a central dimension of contemporary societies and are here to stay. There is no way back to a pre-algorithmic world.

> However, in the same way that other institutions have been democratized throughout time, we believe that democracies now require—and depend on—the democratization of algorithmic institutions.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3680411