Brooke Gladstone
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1,463 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Brooke Gladstone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's been writing science fiction since he was a teenager.
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More importantly, for our purposes, he can clearly distinguish dreams from reality.
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a science fiction writer, yes, also a tech journalist, a visionary, he probably wouldn't say that, but it's true, a special advisor at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the author of many books.
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His latest is The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late.
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Welcome back to the show, Corey.
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So let's first tackle the metaphor at the heart of your brilliant book.
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In automation theory, a centaur is someone whose work is assisted by a machine, like helping them get from place to place by using a car or a bike, someone wearing glasses or a hearing aid to see or hear better, or using a mail sorter, or more to the point, a computer, to boost their efficiency.
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A reverse centaur is when a human serves the machine.
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What are the implications of that?
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The actual machines are treated far better than their human counterparts.
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So bosses want to get the job done without paying people to do it.
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How's that playing out so far?
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You're just helping them sell.
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I was remembering Sam Altman going before Congress saying, we can destroy the world.
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Help us.
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Recently, Ford Motor Company rehired about 300 human engineers after it found that AI just couldn't do the job of quality control as well as the humans could.
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But when AI fails to live up to its hype, it doesn't seem to suffer much blowback, does it?
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Well, right now, the story seems to be that AI is going to make a lot more reverse centaurs and save businesses immense amounts of money.
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That would mean firing most of your workers and leaving what's left, as you say, to check AI's homework and also to bear the blame when things go wrong.
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NPC is a... Non-player character.
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