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A 2026 systematic review applied LDA topic modeling to 40 papers on generative AI literacy. Four themes emerged. Communication was not among them. Meanwhile, Germany's RHET AI Center gets halfway there with Rhetorical AI Literacy — but rhetoric is one-directional. ALC is the missing fifth theme.
March 19, 2026
When human specification input withdraws — corrections stop, feedback fades, calibration ceases — agent systems continue operating without detecting degradation. The most dangerous withdrawals look like improvement. This is the ALC problem nobody's measuring.
March 18, 2026
AI literacy frameworks have four pillars — Understand, Learn, Apply, Analyze. Three independent research groups in 2025-2026 converge on the missing fifth: Communicate. Application Layer Communication is what makes the other four actionable.
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