Cory Doctorow
speaker
2,525 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
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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Friends who work in advanced statistics tell me that AI coding assistants help them produce high-quality, reliable code that solves real problems, improving the quality of the work they do.
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I find AI-generated transcripts of audio very useful for locating quotes in podcasts I've recently listened to, and I use a chatbot that runs on my computer to check my essays for typos.
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This bot often catches typos that my text editor's checker misses, among a smattering of false positives that I have the experience and discernment to disregard.
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You know, like every spell checker.
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But AI doesn't exist in the absence of the bubble.
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It very much exists in the white hot center of the most dangerous investment bubble in the history of markets.
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A year ago, the AI sector's total expenditures were about $700 billion.
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Today, they're over $1.4 trillion, and Gartner projects that this will rise to $2.4 trillion by the end of the year.
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This is an astonishing sum of money to commit to a sector that grosses a mere fifty billion dollars worldwide annually.
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The sector's failure to produce anywhere near as much value as it is consuming has not dimmed its backers' ardor, and they are committed to spending and spending and spending until either they run out of investors or they somehow transform $50 billion worth of revenue on $2.4 trillion in expenditures into profit.
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To this end, the sector's masters are committing all manner of unforgivable sins.
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These range from conning your boss into firing you and replacing you with an AI that can't do your job, to convincing your town council to seize your home and build a data center without any environmental review or public input, to swindling everyday savers with nonsensical IPOs and sweetheart deals with stock exchanges that let insiders cash out their stupid AI bets with your retirement savings.
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These sins are baked into this kind of AI production.
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There is no way to raise trillions in subsidies that allow AI companies to sell computation at a subsidy that amounts to selling hundred dollar bills for a dollar each without also insisting that the end state of all of this is that every job will be swallowed by a chatbot.
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You can't raise trillions on this promise without blitz scale data centers, accompanied by climate shredding gas turbines.
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You can't raise trillions without cramming AI into every part of every person's digital life, without any safeguards for how vulnerable people might use them to sink into dangerous delusion.
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These are the technopolitics of AI.
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To make this AI, the people involved had to inflict these harms upon us.
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The important questions are: to what extent are these the necessary technopolitics of AI?
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And can those technopolitics change?
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