💻 Technology Sep 2, 2026 · Richard Mitchell

AI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts

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AI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts
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A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. It was, on paper, a beautiful machine—engineered to run itself the way a modern airliner does, with operators watching over a system that rarely needed them. And we made a decision that, to an efficiency-minded observer, looked backward: We deliberately left manual steps inside sequences the system could execute on its own.We were solving a specific problem. An oper

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