Cory Doctorow

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525 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 31 Jul

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

Yeah, like just a chatbot that meets you in a video game and says, Hail and well met, traveler.

There is a quest over yonder table waiting for you.

Go and seize the adventure.

So just like a non-person, right?

And these people, they inflict ghastly pain on great numbers of people.

How could you do that if you believed other people as real as you?

But then there's another group of people who don't necessarily believe it but think your boss might believe it.

This is the investor who's like, I don't think that peptides are going to work, but I do think Andrew Tate can sell a lot of peptides to a lot of gullible young men, so I'm going to invest in peptides.

I think there's a lot of billionaires who are like, I don't know if the AI can do the job, but I sure think there are a lot of bosses who are suckers for a story about how they don't have to have ego-shattering confrontations with people who know how to do stuff anymore and, you know, tell you your brilliant ideas like illegal or impossible or a crime or will kill people.

You just give the chatbot the idea and it happens.

Well, I mean, look, all the double-blind experiments seem to suggest that it doesn't work.

Showing someone three frames of a Coca-Cola in the middle of a movie doesn't make them go to the snack bar.

Investors, bosses, you're the sideshow, right?

I think it's totally legitimate if you're an illustrator to say, hey, you took all my work and now you wanna make me broke.

But if you don't clearly distinguish between you wanna make me broke because you figured out how to make art that's as good as mine,

And because you've convinced my gullible boss that this garbage will do the same job that my art does, then you're helping them sell their product.

So it's really important that you not amplify their message or legitimize their message because like they have built the world's most efficient money furnaces.

Sure, but you have to distinguish between I'm losing my job because the thing can do my job and I'm losing my job because they expect that consumers will accept a worse quality product.

So maybe I could use the example of radiologists here.

Sure.

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