By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026AI's investor story is an incoherent tangle of predictions about AI's future. There's the outlandish version ("Once we spend enough money, AI will become God and solve all our problems, including our profitability crisis"). 10/ 137134
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026There's the dystopian version ("The majority of jobs in the economy will be done by our chatbots, and the employers who previously employed those workers will split the wage savings with us"). 11/ 129821
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026None of these stories are plausible, which raises an urgent question: why have the world's wealthiest investors been so eager to hand over *trillions* to finance this bubble? 12/ 235928