The Book & Sources

The published book

Algorithmic Duty of Care

Algorithm—Love Thy Neighbor
A New Social Contract for the Age of Algorithms

Dr. Cindy Mason and Curt Hall
First edition, 2025

Paperback ISBN: 9798280934726
Hardcover ISBN: 9798283090948
Library of Congress Control Number: 2025908296

The book is a companion to the Artificial Compassion project and The Emotion Organon.

Inside the book

Part I — Algorithms, Duty of Care and the Law introduces algorithmification, the Magna Carta parallel, the Horizon IT, Robodebt, and Dutch childcare benefits cases, the limits of human guardrails, ADOC/DDOC, and crisis-driven regulation.

Part II — Algorithms and Evolving Law surveys responses across Australia, the European Union, Brazil, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Singapore.

Appendix — AI Creates the Law explores developments in which AI participates in legal or regulatory processes.

Selected source pathways

The published book contains chapter-by-chapter references. For readers exploring the legal and policy terrain, useful primary-source starting points include:

• Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme — Australia
• Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry — United Kingdom
• European Commission: AI regulatory framework — European Union
• Council of Europe: Artificial Intelligence — international governance
• ArtificialCompassion.org — companion work and wider research program

These links are reading pathways, not a reproduction of the book's complete bibliography. Check original documents for current legal status.

Authors and attribution

This website introduces the ideas developed in the 2025 first edition of Algorithmic Duty of Care by Dr. Cindy Mason and Curt Hall. The framing of digital kings, the historical Magna Carta parallel, and the worldwide survey of emerging policies and laws are part of their published work.