Cheap, Fallible Cognition and the Political Economy of Expertise
arXiv:2608.11512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The question of whether artificial intelligence will "destroy jobs" is too coarse to guide economic analysis or institutional design. A job is not an indivisible object, and machine cognition is not a uniform substitute for human labor. This paper develops a task-based and institutionally grounded framework for analyzing generative AI as cheap, scalable, and fallible cognition. The relevant margins are exposure, adoption, verification, question sel
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Published: 13 August 2026
Source: arXiv cs.CY
Category: Research
Topics: Jobs & economy
Retrieved: 13 August 2026
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