There’s that quote (usually attributed to a 1970s IBM presentation), “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”
Isn’t that the precise opposite of our lived experience of management though? Doesn’t the management consulting industry exist, paid billions primarily to relieve managers of accountability for their own decisions? Wouldn’t purchasing deniability by computerization instead be a tremendous cost savings?
Steve Randy Waldman /
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