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Joseph Weizenbaum: Computer power and human reason (1976, W. H. Freeman) 4 stars

Computer Power and Human Reason is a distinguished computer scientist's elucidation of the impact of …

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3 stars

Often rambling, ranting, and rigorous in odd measure, still a strong critique of computers-substituted-for-intelligence-AI. Computers ought not do some things we will come to believe they are capable of: through the instrumentalist and reductionist narrowing of rationality (and history) to what is computable and recordable; mistaking analogies and models of humans as information processors; and compulsive, addictive, and imperialist closing off of multiple and incommensurate perspectives.