Good find. That's really interesting. I would guess the titles are related.

I want to also mention that with "Bachlorette" Björk seems to anticipate Large Language Models and wrote a cautionary tale about them:

“One day I found a big book buried deep in the ground. I opened it, but all the pages were blank. Then, to my surprise, it started writing itself: 'One day, I found a big book buried deep in the ground…’”

björk : bachelorette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNJv-Ebi67I

> björk : bachelorette

I love this song since my teens and never dig into the meaning of it. Its a musical masterpiece even without understanding the text (which I didnt)

Yes, that's absolutely the allusion. Brautigan's line is a popular title for stuff, including a widely read post by Dario Amodei two months before the CCC talk you've linked:

https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace

And it's also the title of an Adam Curtis documentary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...

It's a good line.

It was certainly the inspiration for the Adam Curtis mini-series of the same name.

This presentation sounds interesting. Thanks for the link.