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Computer Power and Human Reason (W. H. Freeman, 1976)

Joseph Weizenbaum · c. 1976

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  1. since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.
  2. combat the imperialism of instrumental reason, not reason.

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