Human judgment, AI systems, and the new politics of curation

This cluster tracks how control over what we see, read, and hear is shifting between human curators and algorithmic systems. From theoretical models of ‘apt curation’ in education to new digital libraries, catalogs, and AI-music platforms, institutions and creators are redesigning how cultural and scholarly content is selected and surfaced. At the same time, podcasts and commentary probe the authority of recommendation algorithms that increasingly mediate our access to knowledge and art. Together, these pieces highlight a struggle over expertise, transparency, and trust in the age of platform-driven discovery.