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Augmentation
An annotated collection of 2 books & papers on augmentation, spanning 2022 to 2024. Featuring works by Erik Brynjolfsson, Ethan Mollick — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence
Erik Brynjolfsson, 2022 · Dædalus, Vol. 151, No. 2
Brynjolfsson draws a clean distinction between AI that substitutes (automation) and AI that augments (augmentation). When AI imitates the human and replaces them, workers lose bargaining power and value concentrates. Whe…
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Ethan Mollick, 2024 · Portfolio / Penguin
AI not as a tool but as a cognitive companion that transforms how you work, decide and organise. Mollick, from Wharton, argues that AI changes the nature of work not because it performs tasks for you, but because it alte…