AI Fortifies Technocratic Managerialism

As social and economic life moves onto digital platforms, the design choices of engineers and product managers embed managerial rules into daily interaction. Artificial intelligence amplifies that effect by automating rule‑enforcement and decision‑making, making compliance with platform logic a prerequisite for civic and economic participation. — This idea implies political power will increasingly flow through technical design and platform governance, shifting many contests from open political debate to battles over technical standards and platform configurations.