By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026It's the fantasy of a world where the skilled workers who tell you your ideas are stupid are replaced with pliable chatbots who tell you they're brilliant, and then uncomplainingly do the job to your specifications. 15/ 1698
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026It's a world where the cab driver who has all kinds of shit in their life - health problems, family problems, (especially) money problems - is replaced by a "robo-taxi" that is being overseen and (often) driven by remote workers you can't talk to or see, whose problems you never need consider. 16/ 2744
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026"AI safety" is a key piece of the AI hype, pulling focus away from AI's shitty economics, substandard outputs, and failure to do the jobs it takes from human workers, and shifting that focus to the idea that AI is so *powerful* that it constitutes an existential risk to the human race. 17/ 37313
Sunnyside Studio @sunnysidestudios.bsky.social · 10/07/2026To be fair, when I take the train, it's being overseen and driven by a worker I can't talk to or see, whose problems I never need consider 100
