Cory Doctorow
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525 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The most important thing about a technology isn't what it does, it's who it does it for and who it does it to.
When you repeat the outlandish claims made by tech barons, but put at the end of it, and that's bad, in brackets, you're just helping them sell.
And the role of the worker in the AI wars to come.
The world is best when workers decide how they're going to use their tools.
You have to be a good radiologist to use a radiology chatbot.
You have to be a good writer to use the writer's chatbot.
This fantasy that you fire a bunch of people and replace them with less skilled people who charge you less money to get the same output, it's ridiculous.
A pleasure.
One of the great delights of my life to talk to you, Brooke.
Thank you.
The metaphor here is you have the human head on the horse's body.
The horse is strong.
The horse has endurance.
The horse is fast.
But the human applies the judgment and guides the process.
And the reverse centaur is the reverse, the horse's head on the human body.
The human is recruited to be a peripheral to a machine because there's some part of the job the machine can't do.
And since the machine is probably faster than you, stronger than you, can work longer than you, it means you're being used at the absolute limit of your capacity, which means you don't just get used by the machine, you get used up by it.
And this is not new to AI, right?
Ethel and Lucy at the end of the conveyor belt getting as many chocolates into the box as they can.
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