Cory Doctorow

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On the Media · F@#$ the AI Overlords · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

And so I could easily imagine a world in which we didn't have the bubble, in which maybe like the IPCC and Sandia National Labs took $100 billion for a moonshot supercomputer that

that did really good work refining the way we calculate climate emergency predictions, and that that spun out a bunch of interesting little chatbots and image generators and other things, and people made plugins out of them.

My first word processor was a program that came in a magazine I bought at the corner store and typed into my Apple II Plus when I was 10 years old.

And it's been 45 years.

My word processors have gotten a whole bunch of new features.

And now my word processor is a feature that generates plausible word salad.

And like most of those features, it's not one I have much use for.

And I think a lot of people, when they use it, it makes their writing worse.

But, you know, I've never had a word processor feature that was so exciting.

I was like, well, I guess we should bet the world economy on it.

And also, maybe this word processor feature is so good, all the writers should be putting a wood chipper.

We just have AI as a normal technology.

And the idea that we couldn't have AI without that, it's a dumb Jedi mind trick.

It's that there is no alternative.

There's one group of workers who succeeded really well, and it's the Hollywood writers.

And their leverage is not just that they're in a union, although that helps.

They are in a union that is not like any other union in America except for the other Hollywood guilds.

So in 1947, the Taft-Hartley Act was passed.

It was one of the first major reversals in the New Deal.

And under Taft-Hartley, we banned what's called sectoral bargaining.

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