V.A. Nageswaran: We diminish ourselves as humans when we mistake ourselves for machines
People are set to supervising the algorithms that once did their thinking, and the work left to them grows more intense, more solitary, less creative. She reaches, as O’Connor does in her book, We Are Not Machines, for Frederick Winslow Taylor, who broke craft into measurable fragments and turned men into components of a machine.
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