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