The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons

Lovett (HRD Review, July 2026): professional expertise is a profession-level commons whose regeneration mechanism — entry-level work — AI is removing. Distinguishes Internalized Mastery (built through cognitive struggle) from Distributed Mastery (orchestrating AI), and names the Validation Tether: substantive oversight of AI requires the expertise AI adoption erodes. Its sharpest claim is that junior labor's operational necessity was the hidden governance mechanism all along — regeneration was a side effect of business, never a decision