Cory Doctorow's "Reverse Centaur" book — why AI is hell on workers

A centaur is a person assisted by a machine — anything from a bicycle to a spell-checker. A reverse centaur, Cory Doctorow says, is "a person who has been conscripted to assist a machine." Most of the people AI is being inflicted on today are reverse centaurs — warehouse pickers, gig drivers, and coders forced to do the work of six laid-off colleagues at a pace that makes good work impossible, then blamed when the AI output is defective. — Read the rest

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