@berkes @i0null
I like to think of it in more practical terms - a computer *shields* people from responsibility; it makes things fuzzier, harder to trace the decision back to whoever should be held accountable.

We've already seen this in action for a while now: "the algorithm messed up," "the algorithm did something unexpected," "the algorithm shouldn't have done that," the algorithm this, the algorithm that. It's a thought-terminating cliche and, unfortunately, it generally works on people.