ABSTRACT

Artificial Intelligence has gained a foothold not only in various professional research fields but also in organizations, where decision-making, developing and implementing policies, programs, interventions, legal arrangements, therapies, and drugs take place: algorithmization. It is also noted that evaluating the effects, side effects, and impact of algorithmization is not high on the agenda. The first question is how widespread the attention is in evaluation journals. The second question is why there is limited attention for this topic in these journals. The third question is how impact evaluations (would) look. And the fourth question is what the contribution of realist evaluations of algorithmization to the knowledge fund can be.