By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026Where AI *does* produce value, that value is comparable to a *plug-in*, a new feature for your word processor or image/sound/video-editing package that might help you do your job somewhat better, or it might not. 7/ 27110
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026That doesn't make AI useless, it just makes it a *normal* technology: useful for some, useless for others, capable of being abused and likely to waste a lot of time when used unwisely: www.normaltech.ai 8/normaltech.aiAI as Normal Technology | Sayash Kapoor | SubstackAnalyzing AI as transformative but normal technology, not superintelligence. Click to read AI as Normal Technology, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers. 17010
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026Normal technologies are *fine*. But normal technologies do not warrant the massive economic and political commitments that have been bestowed upon AI: a trillion dollars in the past year alone, and the world's civil servants fired en masse and replaced with AI: pluralistic.net/2026/05/13/v... 9/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 16515
