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Cory Doctorow · 5w
I'm worried a fast-talking AI salesman will convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that *can't* do your job (the salesman will be pushing on an open door, since if there's one thing...
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I'm worried that when that happens, the chatbots that badly do the jobs of the people who were fired because of the AI salesman will go away, and nothing and no one will do those jobs. I'm worried that the chaos caused by vaporizing a third of the stock market will lead to austerity and thence to fascism:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/13/always-great/#our-nhs

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Cory Doctorow · 5w
I worry that the workers who did those jobs will be scattered to the four winds, retrained or "discouraged" or retired, and that the priceless process knowledge they developed over generations will be wiped out and we will have to rebuild it amidst the economic and political chaos of the burst AI bu...