'Even highly automated systems need humans' for supervision, maintenance and improvement
math_rachel · x · 2026-10-24
- Rachel Thomas closes the quote thread: automating industrial processes may expand rather than eliminate problems with the human operator — 'even highly automated systems need human beings for supervision, adjustment, maintenance, expansion & improvement.'
- Together the thread argues automation reshapes and amplifies the human role rather than removing it.
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