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Will AI accelerate or undermine the way humans have always innovated?

  • Written by R. Alexander Bentley, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
imageTechnological innovation has always relied on experts collaborating across time and geography.EtiAmmos/iStock via Getty Images

In graduate school, my experimental archaeology professor told a student to create a door socket – the hole in a door frame that a bolt slides into – in a slab of sandstone by pecking at it with a rounded stone....

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