Cory Doctorow
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2,217 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And when it stops working, you'll be able to do it again.
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You'll still be able to transcribe audio or summarize a document.
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You'll still be able to use a chatbot as an interactive journal or as a supercharged spell checker.
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None of that will change, and neither will the limits on all those activities.
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If you don't know enough about a document or its subject to spot obvious errors in an AI summary, you'll be periodically misled.
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If you're so desperate or uninformed that you trust summaries that you lack the capacity to evaluate in critical situations, you may be led to disaster.
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If you don't know anything about computers and you turn a piece of vibe-coded software loose on your machine, you might delete something important or irreversibly expose sensitive data to the public internet.
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AI isn't exceptional.
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It's normal.
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It's not exceptionally dangerous.
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It's not exceptionally evil.
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It's also not exceptionally useful or exceptionally good.
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AI represents a significant advance to computer science, a moderate variation to existing machine learning techniques that generated a much larger improvement in those techniques.
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In the absence of the AI investment bubble, we'd call these things AI can do plugins.
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As in, I just got a new plugin for my word processor that generates plausible word salads.
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I can see how that might be useful for generating placeholder text, and I can tell that a lot of people are going to use it in ways that I find supremely annoying.
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I've had a lot of plugins for my word processors over the past forty years, and most of them fit that description.
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None of them ever made me want to bet the global economy on it or feed all the writers into a wood chipper.
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AI can do many useful things.
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Some of them are very useful.
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