Put computers in the group, not humans in the loop. Most work is already done by groups of people, so the design question is where machines should join a group, not where people are still needed in an automated process. Malone's point is that such societies of mind, with human and machine members, can be built long before general AI.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  In other words, we should move from thinking about putting humans in the loop to putting computers in the group.

• backsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  Long before we have general AI, we can create more and more collectively intelligent systems by building societies of mind that include both human and machine agents.

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