Reports of our death are an exaggeration, Pt 2


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Nov 24 2023 28 mins  

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

—Mark Twain

In 2017, then-CEO of Deutsche Bank John Cryan thought his employees’ days were numbered. Machines would do for them. Not just back office grunts: everyone. Even, presumably, Cryan himself.[1]

“Today,” he warned, “we have people doing work like robots. Tomorrow, we will have robots behaving like people”. …

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