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Rose@piefed.social to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 year ago

Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot

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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot

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Rose@piefed.social to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 year ago
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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    That’s the neat thing, you can deny accountability by blaming the computer’s decision

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      A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

      THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISIONs

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      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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        I understand that there is always a fall guy. Even before AI was shoved everywhere, those really responsible for the problems they created were not held accountable and put the blame on a fall guy.

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