“Beyond the storage and analysis capabilities of a machine built to emotionlessly evaluate a choice on the basis of abstract psychological data reduced to a simple numerical formula, the charismatic power of a nickname had just cast the decisive vote in a decision that was going to upend the lives of numerous human beings.
According to that same report, the incident that stood at the origin of that nickname had occurred in Chad, in an extreme life or death situation. But no board of inquiry had managed to rule on any sort of recurring propensity for cannibalism.”