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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026The idea that teaching too many words to the word-guessing program risks creating a "superintelligence" that awakens and converts all into paperclips is absurd, a silly idea akin to the notion that if we breed horses to run ever faster, one of our mares will foal a locomotive. 18/ 211327
Sarah Richards @sarahrichards.bsky.social · 19/09/2026And long years of failure to halt the rise of a conspiracy-theorising, doomladen frame of mind is fundamental to its success. Enshittification from our online world comes in many, real life, forms: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.com‘Just cut the wires’: why UK conspiracy theorists are destroying traffic scannersSensors that monitor vehicle volume are said to be ‘electronic assault weapons’ by the ‘Blade Runners’ group 000
Ukemike @ukemike.bsky.social · 10/07/2026If AI is as good as they claim, humanity is doomed. If it isn't our economy is doomed. The sooner the bubble bursts the better, but it will still suck. 000