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The MIT/IBM Debate: Mollick vs. Booch on Computers Making Management Decisions
MIT and IBM argued against letting computers make management decisions, drawing pushback from Ethan Mollick, who cited the SAGE system. Grady Booch then corrected him, noting SAGE's intercept decisions were always made by humans.
2026-10-19 ~ 2026-10-19 · 2 episodes · 4 posts
Episode 1 · Ethan Molick pushes back on MIT/IBM over automated management decisions (2026-10-19, 2 posts)
Wharton professor Ethan Mollick rebutted a MIT/IBM post arguing against computers making management decisions, noting the irony that MIT's CSAIL itself does extensive automated decision-making research and systems like SAGE did so decades ago.
- Mollick invokes SAGE: MIT and IBM pioneered computerized management decisions decades ago — emollick · 2026-10-19
- Ethan Mollick mocks MIT post on automated decisions, invoking IBM's SAGE history — emollick · 2026-10-19
Episode 2 · Grady Booch Corrects Mollick: SAGE Kept Humans in the Loop (2026-10-19, 2 posts)
Grady Booch corrected Ethan Mollick's claim that SAGE automatically assigned interceptors, noting that while computers handled threat evaluation, interception decisions were deliberately left to humans.
- Grady Booch corrects Ethan Mollick: SAGE interceptor assignment was human, not automated — Grady_Booch · 2026-10-19
- Grady Booch corrects Ethan Mollick: SAGE interceptor assignment was deliberately human — Grady_Booch · 2026-10-19