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When AI Becomes Labor - by Gianfranco Filice - Gianfranco

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Commit points, permission systems, and the slow reshaping of white-collar work.

The first ATM in the United States stood in the lobby of a Chemical Bank on North Village Avenue in Rockville Centre, New York. It was 1969. The machine was called a Docuteller. It could dispense up to one hundred and fifty dollars in cash and log the transaction. The advertisement Chemical Bank ran in the local paper that week read: On September 2, our bank will open at 9:00 and never close again. It was a sentence written by a marketing department that did not know it was describing the next sixty years. The obvious prediction was that the teller would disappear. Whatever a teller did…

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