Cory Doctorow's "Reverse Centaur" book (opens in new tab)

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 The post Cory Doctorow's "Reverse Centa...