But if the people in power are using these algorithms to quietly watch us, to judge us and to nudge us, to predict and identify the troublemakers and the rebels, to deploy persuasion architectures at scale and to manipulate individuals one by one using their personal, individual weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and if they're doing it at scale through our private screens so that we don't even know what our fellow citizens and neighbors are seeing, that authoritarianism will envelop us like a spider's web and we may not even know we're in it.
Però si la gent en el poder empra aquests algoritmes per observar-nos en silenci, per jutjat-nos i influir-nos, per a predir i identificar els problemàtics i els rebels, per aplicar arquitectures de persuassió a escala i manipular els individus un a un emprant les seves debilitats i vulnerabilitats personals i individuals, i si ho fan a escala a través de les pantalles privades perqué ni tan sols sapiguem el que els nostres conciutadans i veïns estan veient, aquest autoritarisme ens envoltarà com una teranyina i potser no sabrem que estem a dins.