I think AI bros are waging war against creative labor in order to create outrage, because the louder we all shout about how AI can replace workers, the more money they can raise from the capital markets and the more credulous, worker-hating bosses they can peddle defective AI products to.
— from The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow 📚
I’m spending the day at a Future of Investigative Journalism conference. Much to be positive about – but it’s hard to ignore the reality that governments and politicians are trying to make it harder to hold them to account.
Troubling times.
When a tech company tells a fanciful story about the terrible things its products can do, they do so in anticipation of some advantage from convincing the public of their fearsome capabilities.
— The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow 📚
Social media is, and has always been, really good at showing you who would turn informer the moment an authoritarian government of their preferred political flavour rose to power.
The future isn’t predictable, which is a damned good thing, because if the future were predictable, it would be foreordained, which would mean that the actions taken by people don’t matter.
— The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow 📚
Started reading: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow 📚
Loved his blog posts on this subject - looking forward to reading them at book length.
When your daughter discovers the photo of her you posted 14 years ago to celebrate her birth…
