Cory Doctorow

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

All of those things are compatible with continuing to have some form of statistical inference tools that use these new techniques.

It's just not compatible with like betting the world economy on it.

And one of the reasons it doesn't make any sense to be pro-AI or anti-AI is that AI doesn't mean anything.

The industry just points at anything they think will make money and say, hey, that's AI.

Last year, they called it machine learning.

Next year, they'll call it something else.

But also because being opposed to statistical inference is weird.

It's just weird.

Statistical inference is fine when you're using it well.

When you're using statistical inference to figure out who to stop and frisk, it's stupid and terrible, right?

That doesn't make statistical inference bad.

It just makes it not appropriate for all uses.

It means that you have to stop thinking about this stuff as the all-powerful panacea or the all-powerful threat, and we just have to think of it as a normal technology and apply discernment and proportionality in how we fund it

and where we use it, and what societal compromises and sacrifices we make in service to it.

Yeah.

So one of the paradoxes of AI is that you meet programmers who are very skilled, who tell you AI is making their work better than it's ever been.

And you meet workers that are very skilled and they say AI is making their code so bad, you know, I work in avionics, no one should ever get on a plane again.

And the answer to this paradox is not that one person's right and the other's wrong.

One of them's a centaur and one of them's a reverse centaur.

And one of the most interesting centaurs I know is one of the best programmers I know.

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