Cory Doctorow
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2,525 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Tech bosses never liked tech workers.
They simply feared them, feared that these other people would walk out the door.
Like every boss, they must somehow resolve the fact that while they are nominally in charge of the company, the company would run just fine if they didn't show up for work.
Whereas if the workers all disappeared, the whole business would grind to a halt.
They want to believe they're in the driver's seat, but they secretly fear that they're strapped into the backseat, playing with a Fisher-Price steering wheel.
For these bosses, AI represents the promise of a world without people, a world where you have a product idea and it just appears, with no need to cajole, flatter, or bribe entitled tech workers into building it for you.
It's a way to wire the toy steering wheel directly into the corporate drivetrain.
It's not just workers that tech bosses hope to replace with AI.
Social media bosses, like Mark Zuckerberg, have announced plans to replace your friends with AI too.
For Zuckerberg, your friends are a particularly hellish kind of other people.
After all, your friends are the reason you joined social media, and more importantly, they're the reason you stayed on social media.
That's because you love your friends, but they are a pain in the ass.
Hell is other people.
You may all hate Facebook, but you also can't agree on when you should leave it or where you should go next, so you all stay on Facebook.
So long as you love your friends more than you hate Mark Zuckerberg, he can make your life hell.
Mark Zuckerberg is other people, too, and you'll stay on his service, making money for Zuckerberg.
The problem, from Zuckerberg's perspective, is that your friends don't want to organize their social relations with you to maximize your engagement with his platform.
They merely want to socialize with you.
And conviviality isn't optimized to increase the number of ads you view.
This is why Zuckerberg pivoted away from showing you things your friends posted to showing you things that, quote, content creators posted.
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