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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (infosec.pub)
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine however, that a machine objectively makes the better decisions than any person.

You can't know if a decision is good or bad without a person to evaluate it. The situation you're describing isn't possible.

the people who deploy a machine [...] should be accountable for those actions.

How is this meaningfully different from just having them make the decisions in the first place? Are they too stupid?

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You can evaluate effectiveness by company profits. One program might manage a business well enough to steadily increase profit, another may make a sharp profit before profit crashes (maybe by firing important workers) . Investors will demand the best CEObots

Edit to add: of course any CEObot will be more sociopathic than any human CEO. They won't care about literally anything unless a score is attached to it

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

This... requires a person to look at the profit numbers. To care about them, even. I'm not really sure what you're getting at.

I think you're saying that computers can be very good at chess, but we are the ones who decide what the rules to chess are.