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AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Cory Doctorow argues process knowledge - the tacit expertise workers carry in their heads - can never be adequately captured through documentation.
- He names AI advocates who believe chatbots trained on what workers say and write down can replace skilled staff as the group that values that expertise least.
- The piece groups AI replacement pitches with Elon Musk firing skilled government lifers and Trump assuming tariff-era factories can be stood up with training alone.
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