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Sami Mahroum

Sami Mahroum

Pearls and Irritations

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AI is moving the bottleneck, not removing it

AI is moving the bottleneck, not removing it

AI can rapidly expand the volume of work governments process, but human judgment does not scale at the same speed, creating a new bottleneck at the...

21.09.2026 30

Pearls and Irritations

Sami Mahroum

The downside of monetising cognition

As AI democratises cognitive labour, there is a risk of reducing the human capacity to think independently. In his seminal 1956 paper ‘The Magical...

19.06.2026 30

Pearls and Irritations

Sami Mahroum