Cory Doctorow Predicts the AI Bubble Will Burst - The Tyee
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The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence — Before It’s Too Late
Cory Doctorow
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2026)
In tech-bro dialect, a centaur is a human assisted by a machine, such a motorist or a user of hearing aids.
“A reverse centaur,” Cory Doctorow tells us, “is a human who is conscripted into acting as an assistant to a machine,” like users of social media providing themselves as targets for advertisers.
In his latest book, the Toronto-born science fiction author and tech critic argues that artificial intellig…
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