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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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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Well, I might get disliked for this opinion, but in some cases it's perfectly fine for a computer to make a management decision. However, this should also mean that the person in charge of said computer, or the one putting the decision by the computer into actual action, should be the one that gets held responsible. There's also the thing where it should be questioned how responsible it is to even consider the management decisions of a computer in a specific field. What I'm saying is that there's no black and white answer here.