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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.
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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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