Joseph Weizenbaum
Computer scientist (1923 to 2008), creator of the ELIZA program, whose Computer Power and Human Reason (1976) argued that computers should not be given tasks that require human judgment and wisdom.
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Their wordssince we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.
↗Computer Power and Human Reason (W. H. Freeman, 1976)archive.org All 2 from this book
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Their wordscombat the imperialism of instrumental reason, not reason.
↗Computer Power and Human Reason (W. H. Freeman, 1976)archive.org All 2 from this book