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There is a potential dark side to this kind of automation:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/us/starbucks-w...

There could be a lot of turmoil in the next few decades as society adapts to this new world of increased automation.

That is certainly something to worry about, but it isn't a criticism of automated scheduling directly. Both a human and an algorithm can choose to either care about schedule consistency or not. We just have to make sure we choose to include those considerations when designing our AIs.

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