The practice of taking control away from humans and giving it to a “more accurate” machine and its artificial-intelligence software has become an aspect of automated managerial software. This software is slowly but surely displacing human supervisors and managers – that is, institutional decision-makers. Use of embodied computers in robots and software bots has become common in manufacturing and in the industrial Internet of Things. Deployment of such software makes sense in terms of efficiency, and it is hoped, in terms of productivity. But it has also started to invade the realm of monitoring, tracking and decision-making, and the human effects have been predictable: “It makes you feel numb,” as one worker subjected to managerial software explained. Such software dumbs down humans working with it, and it even attempts to tell humans how to express emotions and how to act professionally…or be fired. Institutions have already become comfortable turning over decision-making to software. Yet some pushback has started; first, with lawsuits being filed on behalf of individuals who feel their autonomy is being breached, and second, with state legislatures and foreign governments passing laws that require such software to be more transparent and that regulate algorithmic bias.