Collective decision making is a fact of modern industrial societies, and the assignment of individual “accountability” for collective decisions is, more obviously every year, a bogus exercise which few take seriously. This slogan, hard to definitively track down but widely attributed to an IBM training manual from the late 1970s, seems to effectively summarise a lot of people’s anxieties about artificial intelligence in general management.| insights.starlingtrust.com
against efficiency and accountability| nothinghuman.substack.com
eeh forget it, lad, it’s t’Chinatown| backofmind.substack.com