By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026Above all, replace the bureaucrats who process your "complaints, demands and appeals" with *more* AI, which will arbitrarily decide who gets what, through "personalised welfare interventions" that are not based on any kind of guaranteed rights. 8/ 2410
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026Writing on his blog, the political scientist Henry Farrell tells us where this will inevitably end up: with AI-based robot wars in which increasingly stingy and pernickety robo-bureaucrats create demand for progressively more aggressive robo-lawyers: www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-downsi... 9/programmablemutter.comThe downside of robot solutionismMapping the Abelard Snazz feedback loop 1424
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026As Farrell writes, this end-time was foretold by the prophet Alan Moore with his 1980s *2000 AD* character Abelard Snazz, "the man with the two-storey brain": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelard... 10/en.wikipedia.orgAbelard Snazz - Wikipedia 1301
