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Craig Van Pelt

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Chemist Cyberzombies:

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Chemists test reactions and document the outcomes. They record what compounds burn and which compounds bond. Learned what failed, and what exploded. The data was archived in journals databases.

AI-systems mine those old experiments to design new materials and drugs. The models depend on decades of recorded dead cognitive labor.

The chemists who did the work? It was their hands that used the beakers, their dead cognitive labor that recorded the results.

But the machines inherited the knowledge, and are able to keep working.

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