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Why Do We Measure AI Progress by What It Can Replace, Rather Than What It Enables Humans to Do?

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Why do we frame every new AI capability in terms of what it can replace? Every time AI gains a new capability, a familiar question seems to follow almost immediately: What will this replace? If a model becomes better at programming, we ask which programmers it might replace. If it improves at writi…

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    Why Do We Measure AI Progress by What It Can Replace, Rather Than What It Enables Humans to Do?

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