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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026

Normal 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/

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Pluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026

The people who have committed our society and its resources to an all-or-nothing bet on AI will tell you that AI is the everything machine. 10/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026

But when pressed, they will confess that AI is about to *become* the everything machine, for example, once AI starts doing AI research, a thing that AI *cannot* do: www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-agents-... 11/

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