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How AI could help rebuild the middle class

Planet Money

CHAPTER

The Devaluation of Expertise

I worried about a world where no one's labor is scarce. I'm not worried about us running out of work and running out of jobs. I am worried about the devaluation of expertise. Waze makes everyone an expert driver, but it doesn't make anyone an expert driver. It has the expertise, right? So there was a time when London taxi cab drivers needed to know all the highways and waterways of London which took years to master. And then that made them really expert. They could get you around London better than any other drug. Well now you don't need to know that - you just need a phone,. That's good for passengers, but it devalues the expertise that

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