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You Can't Make Billions Without Hurting People: Cory Doctorow Torches the AI Bubble
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' lands as the AI bubble hits $1.4 trillion — and his Guardian interview names exactly who the hype is for, and who it's coming for.
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Cory Doctorow has a new book out this week — The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI — and his Guardian interview is a masterclass in seeing through the noise. The man who coined 'enshittification' now trains his sights on the $1.4 trillion AI bubble. A 'reverse centaur' is Doctorow's term for the actual relationship emerging between humans and AI — not a person assisted by a machine, but a human conscripted to assist the machine. When I wrote this book it was a $700bn bubble, Doctorow tells The Guardian. It's a $1.4tn bubble now. The only thing worse than a $1.4tn bubble is a $2.4tn bubble, which we're headed for. Sources: The Guardian, Pluralistic
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