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The Algorithm: How AI Can Hijack Your Career And Steal Your Future
Hilke Schellmann, Hurst, £22
A FRIEND of mine once wrote a sketch about a management training guru, who claimed to have invented a tool that can tell “whether you’re a blue, a green, a red or... a dickhead.” Compared to the products and procedures documented in Hilke Schellmann’s The Algorithm: How AI can Hijack Your Career and Steal Your Future, the dickhead test is positively scientific.
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