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I would suggest an updated version, more germane to the current fast-developing landscape of AI agents:

    A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

    THEREFORE WE MUST NEVER DENY THAT

    COMPUTERS CAN MAKE DECISIONS

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I disagree, that's throwing away the 1979-era qualifier of management decision, as distinct from the decisions made by an hourly employee (or computer) following a pre-made checklist (or program.) It's not the same as FizzBuzz "deciding" to print something out.

Related qualifiers might be "policy decision" or "design decisions".

That's precisely the attitude that is the problem. That there's some special category of decisions which are the real decisions. Which is why it's an uncategorical statement.

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