Cory Doctorow on the Right — and Wrong — Way to Criticize AI
canopic jug writes:
Jacobin has an interview with Cory Doctorow about the pending implosion of the AI bubble:
Worrying about whether AI can do your job is a blind alley, Cory Doctorow argues. The real danger is AI's bubble: a speculative fantasy built on convincing bosses to replace workers with systems that can't actually do what their salesmen promise.
As artificial intelligence continues its inexorable march through human institutions, its popularity appears to be reaching an early nadir. So far, the sector's behavior almost seems tailor-made to provoke a negative response. In San Francisco, billboards and bus stop ads exhort employers to STOP HIRING HUMANS. Workers across the country brace for layoffs blamed on AI, and AI companies spend hundreds of billions of dollars on environmentally destructive data centers. You can't talk to a customer service rep anymore, only a chatbot that tells you lies. AI slop is filling up social media feeds, Spotify playlists, and even academic journals and newspapers.
One additional factor is that tech workers failed to unionize while they had the upper hand in the early decades of the WWW. Now those chickens are coming home to roost.
Previously:
(2026) Anthropic Eyes an IPO as Big Tech's AI Cash Crunch Comes for Wall Street
(2026) OpenAI Secures Record $110 Billion Funding Round Backed By Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank
(2025) AI Coding is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
(2024) US Stock Plunge: Could The AI Bubble Burst?
... and many more.
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