Maybe that algorithm thing is the reason why drones don't try to kill Will
Was thinking the same thing. I'm kind of thinking that perhaps the algorithm was being applied incorrectly in the beginning and that's why all these terrible people are in positions of power in the "Global Authority". The Raps, not having the same thought processes as humans, maybe don't understand why this is a problem and let the humans run the planet however they want as long as they get "labor". So we got a bunch of terrible people running the world like a terrifying dystopian oligarchy, when the original creator of the algorithm would have picked "better" people if the algorithm was working correctly. He tweaked it with his friend, reuploaded it to the Rap network (probably got caught and killed doing it), and now various people with distinctly different personalities to the original collaborators are new choices that will eventually get lifted up (probably because the current fuck ups
really fuck up at some point in the future and get renditioned themselves). Honestly, end-game for the show is probably Will working for the Global Authority just in time for this new invasion. Hell, maybe Seattle is actually an experiment to see what happens when a colony is run by people picked out by the "true" algorithm.
The aliens probably really do want to help humanity, they're just letting humans do the governing and it turns out humans are terrible.
