> The human tendency to defer to authority may never be as terrifying as when that authority is held by an uncaring machine with a couple bugs. To this observa

> The human tendency to defer to authority may never be as terrifying as when that authority is held by an uncaring machine with a couple bugs. To this observation I highly recommend E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops, first published in 1909(!). [0] http://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machine-Stops.pdf http://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machin...