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Algorithms workers can't see are increasingly pulling the management strings

  • Written by Tom Barratt, Lecturer, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” HAL’s cold, if polite, refusal to open the pod bay doors in 2001 A Space Odyssey has become a defining warning about putting too much trust in artificial intelligence, particularly if you work in space.

In the movies, when a machine decides to be the...

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