companies pull back from AI rush
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Questions & unknowns
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Microsoft found that “adding agents to a broken process still leaves a broken process” and “speeding up one step just creates a longer queue at the next” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“You could 've asked any experienced information system/tech researchers, & we could have told you what would happen. ”Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back. Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work." w…”
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Pluralistic Doctorow blog resource
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“You can also get a fulltext RSS feed, licensed CC BY 4.0: pluralistic.net/feed/”
Doctorow America more dangerous than AI
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“Recent appearances (cont'd): * AI, Corporate Power, and the Fight for Worker Control (Plutopia) plutopia.io/cory-doctoro... * How to Think About AI (Daniel Solove) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0xR... * Could Tech Bosses Destroy Life As We Know It? (Politics JOE…”
Doctorow post-American internet essay
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“Once we fix our *policy*, *then* we can fix our *code*: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3... eof/”
recursive self-improvement startup model launch
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remex embedding compression tool released
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“Each layer here may need some explaining: I started with the excellent multimodal EmbeddingGemma 2 and used that to embed the 16K images - as images, not the post or alt text Then used github.com/oaustegard/r... to shrink the vector index to 3.2MB, 192 byte…”
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“"It is true that there are big risks associated with AI and agents. Still, treating agents as conscious beings (at least, at this point) is a bit like the early moviegoers who ducked under their seats the first time they saw a train racing toward them on-sc…”
Doctorow kill-switched tractors essay
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“I think the first objection is legit. The software you run on your expensive tractor should be secure, both for your own benefit and for the security of our food supply. That's a pretty good reason to ditch John Deere's own software, which is *very* insecur…”
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“Then, the US Trade Rep spent the next 25 years making sure that every US trading partner had an identical (or even worse!) "anticircumvention" law: pluralistic.net/2025/05/26/b...”
Doctorow life after AI writers fest
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“Upcoming appearances: * Vancouver: Life After AI (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 22 writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve... * Ottawa: Life After AI (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 24 writersfestival.org/event/life-a... * Vienna: TED AI, Oct 28-30 tedai-vienna.te…”
Cory Doctorow life after AI talk
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“Recent appearances: * Life After AI (Brain Bar) www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPPa... * Terms of Service with Clare Duffy (CNN) www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...”
Doctorow AI corporate power podcast
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“Recent appearances (cont'd): * AI, Corporate Power, and the Fight for Worker Control (Plutopia) plutopia.io/cory-doctoro... * How to Think About AI (Daniel Solove) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0xR... * Could Tech Bosses Destroy Life As We Know It? (Politics JOE…”
Doctorow enshittification AI UBC talk
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“Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Virtual: Enshittification, AI, and the Future of Technology (UBC Master of Educational Technology), Nov 28 met.ubc.ca/2026/09/met-... * Oxford: Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science, Dec 9 www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/eve…”
AI autonomy creep enterprises essay
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