The dangers of algorithms and artificial intelligence for leadership decisions

Purpose Artificial intelligence (AI) is commonly offered as a potentially beneficial application towards bettering the future of people, organisations and society. However, AI can have a dark side, where, for example, ideologically driven AI decision-making is directed at political ends involving the impoverishing of the poorest in society to further neoliberal individual and collective political ambitions and careers. This paper aims to examine this ideologically driven dark side use of AI and