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Sami Mahroum

Sami Mahroum

Pearls and Irritations

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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 40

Pearls and Irritations

Sami Mahroum