What Cory Doctorow thinks about AI agents
Science fiction novelist, journalist and activist, a special adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the author of the daily link blog Pluralistic. He coined the word "enshittification" in 2022 to name the way platforms decay, and it was the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2023.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Cory Doctorow has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAnyone who understands how the theory-free statistical inference systems we call "AI" (at this time) work will understand that they are systems that cannot form intent, that have nothing to form intent with
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