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Enhanced information retrieval is a good tool to have - at some point close reading does become difficult to scale out. Building experience on how to use tools to automated expected drudgery like making PPT slides or wordsmithing an NSC memo is a good skill to build. There is a lot of low hanging fruit in professional tooling that can and should be automated where possible, and some class similar to the "Missing Seme…
Synthesis and summarization is literally the main job of an analyst. Frequently the real information is hidden in the tone, tenor, and syntax, not necessarily in the broader content (aka reading between the lines).
Which is why, when someone sends me an AI-generated message that previously would've been written by them, it's like they're jamming one of my skills.
Not only are they not giving me some information I had before (e.g., that the person thought of this aspect to mention, that they expressed it this way, that they invested this effort into this message to me, etc.), but, (if I don't know it's AI-generated) the message is giving me wrong information about all those things I read into it.
(I'm reasonably OK at reading between the lines, for someone with only basic schooling. Though sometimes I'm reminded that some of my humanities major friends are obviously much better at interpreting and expressing. Maybe they're going to be taking the AI-slop apocalypse even worse than I do.)