A Contemporary Victimological Dimension of Technology: Algorithmic Society and Politics of Legitimate Victimization

The paper focuses victimological dimension of social transformations connected to artificial intelligence algorithms technology particularly in the field of driverless vehicles, whose socio-economic impact has been evaluated enormous. Two victimological dimensions are examined: Harari’s hypothesis of “useless” class as consequence of automation based on algorithms structuring a victimizing mass vulnerability and politics of legitimate victimization due to implementation of different moral frameworks in automated vehicles algorithms relative to situations of unavoidable accidents.