They'd Rather Be Right is also known as The Forever Machine.

They'd Rather Be Right was originally published as a four-part serial in Astounding Science Fiction in 1954. It won a Hugo Award in 1955.

Two professors build a cybernetic marvel named Bossy, and things go downhill from there.

Published
1957
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Mark Clifton

Mark Clifton (1906–1963) was an American science fiction writer. About half of his work falls into two series: the "Bossy" series, about a computer with artificial intelligence, was written either alone or in collaboration with Alex Apostolides or Frank Riley; and the "Ralph Kennedy" series, which is more comical, and was written mostly solo, including the novel "When They Come From Space", although there was one collaboration with Apostolides. Mark Clifton gained his greatest success with his novel They'd Rather Be Right (a.k.a. The Forever Machine), co-written with Frank Riley, which was serialized in Astounding during 1954, and which was…