Brent Toderian

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Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.

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Using AI chatbots to address financial questions could risk large losses, with models from a range of providers giving wrong answers most of the time. The most popular AI models from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Grok and Gemini provided wrong answers to financial queries 57% of t…

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net

AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/

Pluralistic: Process knowledge (08 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net
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  • Cory Doctorow argues process knowledge - the tacit expertise workers carry in their heads - can never be adequately captured through documentation.
  • He names AI advocates who believe chatbots trained on what workers say and write down can replace skilled staff as the group that values that expertise least.
  • The piece groups AI replacement pitches with Elon Musk firing skilled government lifers and Trump assuming tariff-era factories can be stood up with training alone.
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When we look back, what will be considered worse, cryptocurrency or artificial intelligence? (the answer is yes)

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I don’t use AI formally (it seems to be automatic in searches now). A colleague who thinks it can be useful is suggesting that a certain point I often make verbally could easily be turned into an effective graphic by AI to help convey my point. So when is something a useful graphic vs “AI Slop?”

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Is there too much “Ai Slop” going around on social media? Absolutely. But when some folks on here start vigorously attacking a photo I myself took as Ai Slop, it makes me wonder how stupid things could get real quick…

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