"Many of today’s bureaucratic functions, both in government and corporations, are already performed not by human administrators directly but by machines controlled by humans. Soon enough, serious attempts will emerge to entirely remove human intermediation and subjectivity from the administrative equation. Here, the potential convergence of blockchains and Artificial Intelligence is provocative as middlemen are replaced by increasingly autonomous middlemachines." - first coined by Mario Laul in 2019. [source: https://mariolaul.medium.com/blockchains-are-bureaucracies-p...]