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Schools are losing their claim to be effective tools to provide education; cars have ceased to be effective tools for mass transportation; the assembly line has ceased to be an acceptable mode of production.

Tools for Conviviality

Ivan Illich

So maybe the thing to teach isn’t a skill but a spirit.

A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft

James Somers

Scott wanted A.I. to empower the kind of resourceful but digitally unschooled people he’d grown up among. This was a striking argument—one that some technologists would consider willfully naïve, given widespread concerns about A.I.-assisted automation eliminating jobs such as the grocery-store cashier, the factory worker, or the movie extra.

The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker

Charles Duhigg

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