The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI
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What is the Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI and why should I care?
Well, good morning. It's very early here in London, and I am recording you a very quick introduction to this week's podcast, a very special podcast. Oh, I should say this is Cory Doctor O and you're listening to the Corey Doctor O podcast. I have a new book out. It's called The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, a pungent critical look at AI and how to be a better critic of it. That comes out in a few weeks. And As per usual, I am now kickstarting pre-sales of the audiobook and the ebook and the print book, as well as memberships to EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the world's most important and most effective digital rights group, where I've worked for 25 years. And that's all at pluralistic.net slash Kickstarter.
And there is an hour of audiobook that you are about to hear. And before I hand you off to that, I just wanted to let you know about my upcoming appearances. If you're listening to this right after it comes out and you're in Berlin, you've got A few chances to catch me. I'm doing both a keynote and a panel at the Republica conference, May 18th through 20th. I'm also doing speeches on both May 18th and May 19th in Kreuzberg for other land books. Those are both sold out, but there is a waiting list. The following week, May 22nd through 25th, I will be at Hey on Why for the How the Light Gets In festival. I'm doing, I think, like three panels and A keynote. Uh, there's a lot. Oh, and a breakfast. Uh, I'm doing a keynote in London on June the 2nd at South by Southwest London.
If you're in Kansas City, I'll be at the Woodneath Library Center on June the 10th. That's also sold out, but there is a wait list. And then we get into the tour for the Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI. There are still some events that are not announced, but I'm going to To give you dates and places so you can mark your calendar in case you want to come out and you're in the right city for it. It starts in LA with Brian Merchant at Skylight Books. On June the 19th. And then I'll be in Menlo Park on June the 21st at Kepler's. There is an unannounced but definite event in Toronto on June the 23rd. And I'll be at the Strand in New York on June the 24th with Jonathan Colton. Another unannounced event in Philadelphia on June the 25th.
And there's an event that's not yet on the counter. Calendar, but I can give you details in Chicago on June the 26th. We'll be at Exile in Bookville, and I'll be with the amazing Rick Perlstein. I'll be at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 17th with Jimmy Wales and also doing a solo talk there. So those are the things that are in The diary. There's actually lots more talks to come, but I want to get on with the audiobook excerpt here. And just to say: if you're a Londoner and you came out yesterday for the 75th anniversary of the Nakba Never Again March yesterday, that I was there with you. And I thank you for the solidarity. I had to walk through the fascist march and Trafalgar Square to get there.
And boy, it was very depressing to see all those neofascists massed in the streets of London. And it really buoyed my spirits to see so many hundreds of thousands of us marching in Palestinian solidarity and for a better world. So thank you very much. And if you have a chance to show your solidarity where Wherever you live, I hope you will take it. Anyway, now on with the excerpt. And once again, if you like this audiobook and you want the audio, the ebook, the print book, the ebooks and audiobooks of inshidification, the chance to support EFF, to buy insidification pins and stickers from EFF to raise money. all of those things, you can go to pluralistic.net slash Kickstarter and that'll redirect you to the latest Kickstarter campaign.
And I thank you very much. Have a great week.
For the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and everyone else who ever fought for better technology. Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they should that they didn't stop to consider whether they could. Matthew W. Bradley. Introduction. In May twenty twenty five, the Internet briefly chose a new unfortunate main character, Marco Buscalia, a Chicago-based freelance writer behind a syndicated summer reading list.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI and why should I care?
0:11–5:58
2
Which upcoming talks and events does the author have on his 2024‑2025 tour?
5:58–15:22
3
How did Marco Buscalia’s AI‑generated summer reading list expose the limits of chatbot‑only writing?
15:22–28:11
4
What practical AI workflow did the author use to retrieve a podcast quote, and why was it successful?
28:11–41:28
5
How does the “centaur vs. reverse‑centaur” metaphor explain good vs. harmful AI deployments?
41:28–55:02
6
Why do growth‑oriented tech companies rely on stock‑based financing instead of cash?
55:02–1:04:40