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Re:Algorithms Are Great and All, but They Can Also Ruin Lives by dTal on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @03:19PM (#8632361)
The canonical sci-fi short story about this is the darkly humorous "Computers Don't Argue", written by Gordon Dickson all the way back in 1965.

Link: http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=133

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Re:Algorithms Are Great and All, but They Can Also Ruin Lives by ilikemustard on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @04:52PM (#8632853)
Thanks for linking that, it was a great and quick read. That's very dark but shockingly relevant to this topic.
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