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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026

This only seems like a riddle until you understand that the most important fact about *any* technology (including AI) isn't what it does, but who it does it *for* and who it does it *to*: pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/v... 11/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026

* When a boss fires a worker and gives their jobs to an AI, it usually means that they don't care if that job is done well, which is why customer service jobs are being handed over to AI: pluralistic.net/2025/08/06/u... 12/

A mockup of a smartphone displaying an audiobook app that's playing 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI'. Next to it appears this text: 'You could not ask for a clearer, more ambitious or better-written business book than this one . . . Doctorow deserves thanks for his service. —The Financial Times (on Enshittification)'

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026

* Bosses also love firing coders and replacing them with AI - first, because bosses are really angry about the decades when tech workers were in short supply and bosses had to pretend to like them. 13/

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