AI and a world without migrants
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Good morning and welcome back to the Cory Doctorow podcast. It's my last podcast from London for a month, going back to Los Angeles, which is to say Los Angeles is the city I'm going to return to to change suitcases, because as you will shortly hear, I'm going to be in a lot of other places. I'm giving my last talk in London on June the 2nd. That's this Tuesday at South by Southwest London. And then I will be in Kansas City on June the 10th. And then I start the tour for the Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI. It starts in LA with an event with Brian Merchant at Skylight Books on the 19th. And then in Menlo Park with Angie Coiro at Kepler's Books on June the 21st. I'll be in Toronto for an event with Typebooks at a venue to be determined on June the 23rd.
And I'll be in New York at The Strand with Jonathan Colton on June the 24th. In Philadelphia at the Filter Club on behalf of the Philadelphia Citizen with David Williams on June the 25th. And with Rick Perlstein in Chicago at Exile in Bookville on June the 26th. Back to the UK after that for an event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival with Jimmy Wales on August the 17th. And then they've just posted details for an event I'm doing at Notre Dame in South Bend on October the 6th. And there will be more between August and October, obviously, but those ones are not online. These guys are just eager beavers who got it online early. If you have been listening, you've heard about my Kickstarter.
Last week's episode was just an excerpt from the audiobook for the Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI. There's just a few days left in that Kickstarter, and you can go to pluralistic.net slash kickstarter to pre-order ebooks, audiobooks, to order ebooks and audiobooks of Enchidification, and to get paperbacks of Reverse Centaur. Reverse Centaur is a paperback original, although I think the UK edition might be a hardcover. Not sure. Anyway. I've not seen the finished books yet. It's been a little weird. It's been a little loosey-goosey. Publishers are not as diligent with getting me those books. But they look good online. I think they're going to be very beautiful books. The cover art's really nice.
And so, yeah, so that's my big news. I've got The Reverse Centaur coming out. And today I'm going to read you a column about AI. So The Reverse Centaur is a book about being a better AI critic and about understanding... and the material and ideological roots of AI and how they interact with each other and how to criticize AI in a way that targets the bubble most efficiently, how to pop that bubble before it does too much damage. This week's reading comes from Pluralistic.net. It's something I wrote called AI in a World Without Migrants. And those of you in the UK might be familiar with the new news outlet, The Nerve, which was founded by Carol Cadwallader and friends when The Observer was bought out.
They have made me their technology columnist and they are taking one of my pluralistic posts every month and editing it lightly and putting it up there. And this is the one that they chose. So it'll be on The Nerve this week as well. So without further ado, from the 27th of May edition of Pluralistic.net, AI and a world without migrants.
I don't care who you are. There will always be times when hell is other people. Not because other people are horrible. Quite the opposite. Other people are wonderful. But boy, are they ever stubborn. From board games to romance, team sports to movement politics, business ideas to construction projects, there's so much important, enjoyable, and essential stuff you can't do alone. But other people insist on having their own priorities and goals, and they mulishly refuse to organize their lives to suit your priorities. Our species has put a lot of work into resolving this conundrum. Not only did we evolve a whole brain structure, the neocortex, that helps us understand others' perspectives, but we also evolved many social structures, like laws and teams and governments and families and committees and bureaucracies, to help us coordinate with others to do superhuman things, that is, things that exceed the capacity of a single human.
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