Cory Doctorow
speaker
2,525 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3d ago
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The crimes and sins of AI would become a matter for social and
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And legal control, not problems that we can only solve if we can convince vast, corrupt, wealthy corporations to take action.
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Could we have this AI future still?
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Well, after the AI bubble pops, we're gonna have something.
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We're gonna have the open source models that the hyperscalers released as demos for their main event frontier models.
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We'll have bankruptcy scale hardware.
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We'll have an army of skilled workers who will no longer be compelled by their bosses to try and cram AI into all of our orifices or to convince our bosses to fire us and replace.
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The question though is whether AI is more like a Robert Moses overpass, a nuclear reactor, or a tomato harvester.
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Are there inescapable aspects of the current generation of AI models that mean that using them independently of the hyperscalers will still somehow perpetuate the harms of the current AI bubble?
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One argument for this is that the fruit of the poison tree is forever poisonous.
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The fact that these AI tools were made by bad people for bad reasons makes everything you do with the tools bad.
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The most extreme version of this argument is that it's the mere fact of a sinful origin that disqualifies the hyperscaler's open AI models from moral consideration.
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This is a bad argument.
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There's hardly any technology, any built infrastructure that is free from sin.
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Every microchip you use is filled with billions of linear descendants of William Shockley's silicon transistors.
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Shockley was a monster, a virulent racist and eugenicist who spent his Nobel Prize bounty in efforts to pay black women to have their tubes tied as part of a disgusting racist project.
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Going further back, Europe's roads owe their existence to Rome's imperial conquest, a bloody campaign that included mass enslavement and the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians.
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Europe's modern roads aren't necessarily any better.
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Hitler himself turned over the first spadeful of dirt for Austria's Autobahn.
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It's important to remember these facts and make reparations for old crimes, but just as you can't both be alive and avoid impacting the environment, you also can't both be alive and free from contact with the relics of monsters, both modern and ancient.
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