Mollick invokes SAGE: MIT and IBM pioneered computerized management decisions decades ago
emollick · x · 2026-10-19
Ethan Mollick pushes back on MIT and IBM's stance against computers making management decisions, calling it ironic: both were key to SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) roughly 20 years earlier — the Cold War US military computer-radar network that automatically assigned interceptors and missiles, literally letting a computer make management decisions.
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