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The Quiet AI Miscalculation T&T Professionals Are Making (Part 1)

The most disruptive technology in a generation is the one we're least prepared for

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Kerry Peters
Apr 19, 2026
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In the spring of 1943, a young Black woman named Miriam Mann started work at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. She was a mathematician. The job title on her personnel card said computer, because back then that is what they called people whose job was to compute.

She sat at a desk with a slide rule and a mechanical calculator and produced, by …

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