AI's assault on reality is an opportunistic infection that deepens an existing epistemic crisis, according to author Cory Doctorow in his 20 Aug 2026 newsletter. Doctorow argues that deepfakes and AI-…
AI executives are publicly warning about the destructive potential of their products as a way to boast about their potential, according to author Cory Doctorow in his Pluralistic newsletter. Doctorow …
In a blog post published on August 18, 2026, author Cory Doctorow argues that expanding copyright to ban AI training will not protect artists' livelihoods from AI-driven wage erosion, asserting that p…
Elizabeth Tai's blog post 'Substack writers, you need a website!' reached No.1 on Hacker News, a milestone she attributes to prior promotion by WordPress.com's Freshly Pressed page. Tai, a technical c…
Cory Doctorow argues that AI tools are most effective when used by experienced workers, or 'centaurs,' who set their own terms and exercise discernment. He contrasts worker-driven automation, which im…
Cory Doctorow, tech journalist and author of 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI,' proposed that Canada repeal its 2012 anti-circumvention law Bill C-11 to allow jailbreaking American techno…
Google, a thrice-convicted monopolist with over 90% search market share, is an absentee landlord that deliberately worsens search results to serve more ads and neglects to filter affiliate spam, accor…
Cory Doctorow, Canadian science fiction author and net activist, warns in his new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late' t…
Tal Feldman, writing in The New York Times, argues that free Chinese AI models are designed to promote the Chinese government's interests, but a blog post by zgp.org counters that US-based AI firms ar…
Author Cory Doctorow argues that AI tools require user discernment to evaluate their output, citing a dialogue between mathematician Terrence Tao and ChatGPT about the Jacobian conjecture as an exampl…
Michiel de Jong, founder of Ponder Source, argues in a July 2026 blog post that the falling cost of AI software production will weaken proprietary giants like SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft, shifting powe…
Award-winning Canadian science-fiction author and tech activist Cory Doctorow argues in his new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life after AI' that people must be in charge of their technology, n…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a new podcast feed for its EFFecting Change livestream series, starting with a conversation on the Right to Repair movement featuring Adam Savage …
Journalist and author Cory Doctorow warns that the AI investment bubble will burst, leaving a skills void as companies that replaced human workers with algorithms lose institutional knowledge that tak…
Science fiction author and journalist Cory Doctorow warns that when the AI bubble bursts, executives who replaced staff with AI tools will face a 'really long time' to recover lost skills, and caution…
AI coding agents have lowered the barrier for developers to launch micro-SaaS apps, but this ease of building can lead to building the wrong thing without proper due diligence, as developer Allen Helt…
AI boosters have spent over $1.4 trillion, most of that in the past year, on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible while lowering wages, according to a post by author Cory Docto…
Cory Doctorow, the tech gadfly who coined 'enshittification,' called the push for sovereign AI 'nonsense' in a Wednesday post, arguing that countries should instead focus on building sovereign apps an…
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' accurately diagnoses present-day AI risks like power consolidation and automation blindness but wrongly dismisses catastrophic A…
GMO Internet Group discontinued remote work after observing decreased typing volume, highlighting a conflict between encouraging AI coding tools like Copilot and evaluating engineers on keystroke coun…