Ironies of Automation

In the paper “Ironies of Automation” by Lisanne Bainbridge, she discusses how automation can make operators’ jobs harder rather than easier. This is particularly interesting in light of Large Language Models seemingly taking over lots of things that we used to rely on humans to do.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200717054958if_/https://www.ise.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Bainbridge_1983_Automatica.pdf