The Limits of Computer Decision-Making: Where Human Judgment Still Matters

🤖 How did a set of math rules from the 1940s end up defining what it means to be rational? In the 1940s, mathematicians and engineers set out to build machines that could make critical decisions under uncertainty. Within a decade, they had invented tools that not only launched modern computer science but quietly rewrote what it means for a human being to make a "rational" choice. Benjamin Recht, a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, will draw on his new boo