46. Cory Doctorow on Life After AI

In modern tech parlance, a centaur is a person who uses technology to be a better, more productive version of themself; a reverse centaur, then, is a person forced by technology to work at an inhuman pace. These stories are all too familiar: drivers made to deliver all day long; warehouse workers forced to work without bathroom breaks; and now, knowledge workers asked for impossible productivity under the mirage of AI efficiency. In The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, Cory Doctorow—the bestselling author of Enshittification and The Internet Con—deftly pops the AI bubble, recounting how we found ourselves in this dire situation and how we can advance to a place where the tools work for us, instead of the other way around.

Moderated by David Beers. 

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