By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026What are we to make of the people who've been fired by bosses who replaced them with AI, in light of the fact that AI is demonstrably not able to do their (former) jobs? Again, it's simple if you separate out two distinct phenomena: "AI can do your job" is the first. 5/ 2622
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026The second is: "Your boss is a credulous dolt who is infinitely horny for replacing lippy workers with pliable machines, which made him an easy mark for an AI salesman who convinced him to fire you and replace you with an AI that *can't* do your job": pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a... 6/pluralistic.netPluralistic: AI can’t do your job (18 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 312213
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026This is also a useful move for understanding the AI investment bubble. It's not just billionaires who don't think other people are as real as they are and consequently their jobs can be done by chatbots. 7/ 1815
God-Emperor Tsunami 💙 #FBPE #BLM #GTTO @tsunami65.bsky.social · 13/08/2026When the AI fails to do your job, your boss won't re-hire you. He/she will just buy a more expensive AI. 4397
Vic GenXer @genxer22.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Can't wait to see you in person in Courtenay, BC, Canada! 😍 -Affectionately a Lippy IT QA Mgr who created our Centaur😉 Now Retired until "The Electric Monk's Horse" Runs Amok at 3 am 😅 Praise Be Douglas Adams🫶🙌 who features prominantly in my QA training program: "We are the phone sanitizers..." 001