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Cory Doctorow · 5w
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 tha...
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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 bubble:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/process-knowledge-vs-bosses/#wash-dishes-cut-wood

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Cory Doctorow · 5w
In short, I worry that AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into our civilization's walls, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes But Bengio disagrees. He's very smart, and very accomplished, and he's *ve...