The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor
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The use and influences of AI and other advanced technologies in established professions have long been debated.
“The use and influences of AI and other advanced technologies in established professions have long been debated (e.g., Abbott, 1988).”
From Anticipatory innovation of professional services: The case of auditing and artificial intelligence (2023) · cites this paper as Abbott, 1988
Libraries have been charged with the responsibility of disseminating information and providing access to relevant information services based on the needs of local community constituencies.
“Libraries have also been charged with the responsibility of disseminating information and providing access to relevant information services based on the needs of local community constituencies (Rayward, 1994;Abbott, 1988).”
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AI operates less as a capability or potential to be 'colonized' by different professional groups than as an institutional actor in its own right, with designs upon the control which established professions exert over key tasks.
“The technology here operates less as a capability or potential to be 'colonized' by different professional groups (Abbott, 1988) than as an institutional actor in its own right, with designs upon the control which established professions exert over key tasks.”
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