Cory Doctorow
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9 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And others are using that tool and they're describing it as a source of immiseration.
And not just that, but it's such a drastic reduction in quality that you hear programmers say,
Get your money out of the banks because they've been rewriting their software and I've had a front seat for it.
And oh my God, they're going to get wiped out by hackers.
Or don't ever fly in a plane again or whatever.
So how is it you have these two groups of workers who have this seeming contradiction?
And the answer is it's not the tool.
It's how they're being directed to use it.
The first group are centaurs.
The second group are reverse centaurs.
The first group is figuring out how to use the tool to do their job better.
The second group has seen nine-tenths of their colleagues fired, and they've been put in charge of marking the AI's homework and taking the blame when the AI gets it wrong.
And it's not what the gadget does, it's who it does it for and who it does it to.
I think that's why you got a stick mic there.
You're back.
Yeah, I do think that like civilizationally, we have subtle object permanence that we'd lose a game of peekaboo, right?
Because like these are not, you know, like AI is doing new things.
It is certainly like, and I know I've said this like three or four times now, I'm going to say it again.
From a computer science perspective, AI, super interesting.
But the issues that AI raise, although they have their own special character,
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