In the previous post, we discussed several observations, Lisanne Bainbridge made in her much-noticed paper “The ironies of automation”, she published in 1983 and what they mean for the current “white-collar” work automation attempts leveraging LLMs and AI agents based on LLMs, still…

In 1983, Lisanne Bainbridge wrote the much-noticed paper “The ironies of automation”. Being a cognitive psychologist, she discussed some counter-intuitive effects of automation in her paper. She called those effects ironies and paradoxes, providing precise definitions for both terms:

In the previous post, we completed our analysis of the projection Steve made by looking at some unresolved side effects and questions that would come with such a future.

In the previous post, we looked at the likely short- and mid-term consequences if Steve’s projection should become reality. We saw a bit disturbed that most likely the only winners of that projection would be the providers of agentic AI solutions and their investors while everyone else would be on the loser side of the game.

In the previous post, we looked at the want side regarding Steve’s projection and the forces they trigger. We took off the rose-colored glasses and tried to have an unembellished look at these forces even if the things we saw, were a bit more gloomy and controversial than we would have liked it.