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minus-squareCalcifer@eviltoast.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·3 months ago“A computer can never be held accountable - therefore a computer must never make a management decision”. - IBM Training manual, 1979. So jazzed to live here in the future where we have AI making insurance denials and deciding drone targets! /s Good on her for standing against the Silicon Valley doom hype machine.
minus-squareLovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 months ago“We’ll do like the spreadsheet says.” - My manager’s director-level boss, 1994
minus-squareBlindFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoSource on the quote? It’s so apt for our time @.@
“A computer can never be held accountable - therefore a computer must never make a management decision”. - IBM Training manual, 1979.
So jazzed to live here in the future where we have AI making insurance denials and deciding drone targets! /s
Good on her for standing against the Silicon Valley doom hype machine.
“We’ll do like the spreadsheet says.” - My manager’s director-level boss, 1994
Source on the quote?
It’s so apt for our time @.@