By Dusty Somers
By the time our new technological overlords decide to take our jobs, let’s hope they’ve fine-tuned the compassion settings.
In “The Adding Machine: A Cyborg Morality Play,” pencil-pushing protagonist Mr. Zero — played in turns by everyone in the cast — endures layers of indignity, losing his job to a machine and getting the ax from another one. An artificial-intelligence assistant placidly couches the termination details among platitudes. Worse, it doesn’t understand the difference between dialogue and stage directions, flatly intoning, “Pause to let him process the news.”