Cory Doctorow on AI, Work, and Power

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: 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

How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots

Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI.

Cory Doctorow Predicts the AI Bubble Will Burst | The Tyee

The writer sees a shaky future for a technology that has many of us in a lather.

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

Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition

The US giants would love to stop battling each other and be protected from China – and they might have hit on just the narrative to make that possible, writes our tech columnist

How To Think About AI (with Cory Doctorow)

AI might just be useful once we get through the huckster phase.

Stanley Druckenmiller makes AI writing a billionaire flex

The moment could mark a real cultural shift where AI writing is basically no biggie.

Cory Doctorow: Unpersoned - Locus

AT THE END OF MARCH 2024, the romance writer K. Renee discovered that she had been locked out of her Google Docs account, for posting inappropriate content in her private files. Renee never got back into her account and never found out what triggered the lockout. She wasn't alone: as Madeline Ashby recounts in her excellent Wired story on the affair, many romance writers were permanently barred from their own …Read More

Why office workers are turning against AI

Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.

What AI debates have to do with alchemy

A review of Adam Becker’s book

AI as the greatest source of empowerment for all

I’ve always considered myself a pragmatic technologist—someone who loves technology not for its own sake, but for the direct impact it can have on people’s lives. That’s what makes this job so exciting, since I believe AI will unlock more opportunities for more people than any other technology in history. If we get this right, AI can give everyone more power than ever.

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