My class read a science fiction story in CS about a guy getting executed on death row for a late library book in a comedy of errors where a series of automated systems glitch out and a detached bureaucracy is slow to react. Or something like that.
I feel like it should be required reading to protect against "automate all the things" hubris.
Sounds somewhat reminiscent of the Terry Gilliam film Brazil. Basically a fly dies and gets caught in a teletype machine, causing the name on an arrest warrant to be misprinted. This snowballs into all sorts of darkly humorous and depressing hijinks.
Basically a modernized version of the premise of "The Trial" by Franz Kafka. An unknown authority charges the character with a unstated crime and bureaucracy chugs along on errors and assumptions.
I feel like it should be required reading to protect against "automate all the things" hubris.