Adam Curtis, One.
[Joseph Weizenbaum's] response was to get very gloomy about the whole idea of machines and people. Weizenbaum wrote a book in the 1970s that said that the only way you were going to get a world of thinking machines was not by making computers become like humans. Instead you would have to do the opposite -- somehow persuade humans to simplify themselves, and become more like machines.
BBC
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