Moving on to AI and algorithms, the penultimate chapter of the book focuses on the importance of vigilance and criticality when engaging with screens. The influence of AI and algorithms on day-to-day interactions, their inherent potential to steal content, and their tendencies to stir up racism and intolerance all mean that it is becoming increasingly vital for researchers, policymakers, and educators to understand these technologies. This chapter argues that being informed and armed with meta-awareness about AI and algorithmic processes is now key to critical digital literacy. In arguing towards this conclusion, it starts by presenting scholarly perspectives and research on AI and literacy, before turning to Ruha Benjamin and Safiya Umoja Noble’s research into racism in AI and algorithms, including Benjamin’s concept of the ‘New Jim Code’. Crescent voices are invoked to contextualize these ideas in real world experiences with algorithmic culture, where encounters with blackboxed practices and struggles to articulate experiences of algorithmic patterns serve to demonstrate further the importance of finding new constructs for critical literacy that encompass algorithmic logic.