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    1990s copier repair work as a lens on AI job-replacement claims

    A user points to an ethnography of copier technicians to show how complex, improvised and poorly documented their work was.

    Ethan MollickEM
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    A user points to an ethnography of 1990s copier repair technicians when considering claims that AI can easily replace workers. They say the work was complicated, improvised, informal and badly documented, while noting that technology eventually did largely eliminate the job.

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    Ethan Mollick@emollickWhen people talk about AI easily replacing workers, I think about this ethnography of copier repair technicians in the 1990s. You see how work is complicated and improvised by workers and informal and badly documented. (But eventually technology did largely eliminate this job)2h