A.I. Enshittifies Everything (Still)

<p>Through stealing your job or simply tanking the stock market—whichever comes first—the rise of artificial intelligence (companies) is a very futuristic sounding problem. It may have some very old-fashioned sounding solutions however.</p><br><p>Guest: <a href="https://craphound.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cory Doctorow</a>, sci-fi author, journalist, blogger and author of “<a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai/id6758016628?itscg=30200&amp;itsct=books_box_link&amp;mttnsubad=6758016628&amp;at=1000l38Mz&amp;ct=What+Next+TBD" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.</a>”</p><br><p><em>This episode originally aired June 26. TBD will be back to regularly scheduled programming next week.</em></p><br><p>Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at<a href="http://slate.com/whatnextplus" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> slate.com/whatnextplus</a> to get access wherever you listen.</p><br><p>Podcast production by Rob Gunther, Evan Campbell, Madeline Thames-Ducharme and Patrick Fort.</p><br><p>Paige Osburn is the senior supervising producer of What Next and What Next TBD.</p><p>Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our <a href="https://slate.com/podcastfaqs#plusbenefits" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FAQ</a> at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>