Garry Peterson: review of Dan Davies new book in FT "The Unaccountability Machine — why do big systems make bad decisions?" ft.com/content/0bb1... "a compelling case for the use of Stafford Beer’s management cybernetics in the age of AI"

review of Dan Davies new book in FT "The Unaccountability Machine — why do big systems make bad decisions?" ft.com/content/0bb1... "a compelling case for the use of Stafford Beer’s management cybernetics in the age of AI"

The Unaccountability Machine — why do big systems make bad decisions?ft.com Dan Davies makes a compelling case for the use of Stafford Beer’s management cybernetics in the age of AI

for more on Stafford Beer see: The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... that "provides us with an imaginative model of open-ended experimentation in stark opposition to the modern urge to achieve domination over nature and each other."

The Cybernetic Brainpress.uchicago.edu Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics c...

and of course this work influences much of we at @sthlmresilience.bsky.social do from Resilience practice Sellberg etl Engaging with complexity in resilience practice. Ecology and Society 26(3):8. doi.org/10.5751/ES-1... or Resilience thinking for CEO's www.stockholmresilience.org/news--events...

Ecology and Society: Engaging with complexity in resilience practicedoi.org Sellberg, M. M., A. Quinlan, R. Preiser, K. Malmborg, and G. D. Peterson. 2021. Engaging with complexity in resilience practice. Ecology and Society 26(3):8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12311-260308

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