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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026

A reverse centaur is the machine's accountability sink and moral crumple-zone: estsjournal.org/index.php/es... AI is a normal technology, just another set of automation tools that have some uses for some users. 70/

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Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026

The thing that makes AI signify "go fuck yourself" isn't some intrinsic factor of large language models or transformers. It's the capitalist mode of automation, increasing quantity at the expense of quality. 71/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026

Automation doesn't *have* to be a way to reduce expectations in the hopes of selling worse things for more money - but without some form of external constraint (unions, regulation, competition), that is inevitably how companies will wield *any* automation, including and especially AI. eof/

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