Why AI Can’t Replace You with Cory Doctorow
Summary
Adam Conover interviews Cory Doctorow about his new book, *The Reverse Centaur*, which critiques how AI is currently deployed to exploit labor rather than empower workers. Doctorow distinguishes between "centaurs," who use AI to enhance their skills, and "reverse centaurs," who are conscripted as peripherals to machines, leading to worse outputs and increased injury rates. The conversation explores the economic bubble surrounding AI, arguing that massive capital investment is driven by the need for perpetual growth and the desire to replace skilled, unionized labor with cheaper, less reliab…
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