Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist

Cory Doctorow on AI, Work, and Power

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist. He joins Joshua Goldberg to discuss the dynamics between AI, work, and power.

Cory Doctorow: Hell is other people – so billionaires are using AI to replace them

The tech elite are pouring billions into dispensing with inconvenient humans. Now governments want the same trick to wish away the migrants their economies desperately need, writes the author and Nerve columnist

Developer's Honest Assessment of AI at Work Rattles the Official Narrative

A veteran programmer was praised after sharing his brutally honest thoughts about AI's impact on work and productivity.

Nature is Laughing at the AI Build Out -

I was catching up on Acquired episodes this week and listened to the spectacular “Google: The AI Company” episode that Ben and David put together. What the two of them have created with their podcast fascinates me in the inevitability of its success. I think Acquired proves that if you are smart and work your […]

An AI CEO finally said something honest

24K votes, 828 comments. Dax Raad from anoma.ly might be the only CEO speaking honestly about AI right now. His most recent take: “everyone's talking…

Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Technopolitics

It's one thing to be anti-AI in the sense of believing that AI-generated slop, disinformation and deepfakes are bad; that AI companies that hope to con your boss into firing you and replacing you with AI that can't do your job are bad; that betting the economy on AI is bad; that betting the human-habitable planet Earth on AI is bad; that running roughshod over local environmental rules and seizing …Read More

Nathan Witkin on Twitter / X

Does anyone disagree that pretty much every piece of empirical evidence we have about actually existing AI points toward a labor-augmenting technology with a more-or-less ordinary risk profile (no worse than cars, guns, nuclear power, social media, etc.)?On the labor front, the…— Nathan Witkin (@NateWitkin) October 5, 2026

Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years

"A bit of a shift from a year ago where we were all about the AI PC."

Why I'm (sort of) not worried about AI | Jack Conte

As a creator, and as a leader of a tech company, I have a deep sense of conflict about AI. I feel outrage, but I also feel something else. O