{"id":239,"date":"2026-06-30T11:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:08:41","slug":"lawfare-daily-the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai-a-conversation-with-cory-doctorow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Lawfare Daily: \u2018The Reverse Centaur&#8217;s Guide to Life After AI\u2019\u2014A Conversation with Cory Doctorow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On this episode of <em>Lawfare Daily<\/em>, Senior Editor Kate Klonick and Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein speak with Cory Doctorow\u2014science fiction author, activist, journalist, adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the writer who coined &#8220;enshittification&#8221;\u2014about his new book, \u201cThe Reverse Centaur&#8217;s Guide to Life After AI.\u201d Doctorow argues that the most important thing about the AI boom isn&#8217;t what the technology can or can&#8217;t do, but the historic investment bubble and the new arrangements of work being built on top of it\u2014the same analytic lens he brought to platform decay, now turned on AI.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=238\">Can Frontier AI Labs Lawfully Agree to Pause?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They discuss whether the AI bubble will actually burst or merely deflate, and the unit economics underneath it; the &#8220;reverse centaur,&#8221; the worker conscripted to serve the machine; and how it maps onto a broader culture and questions of AI &#8220;knowledge collapse,&#8221; the human analogue to AI model collapse.<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional Resources:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cory Doctorow&#8217;s daily newsletter, Pluralistic\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Ed Zitron, &#8220;The Hater&#8217;s Guide to the AI Bubble,&#8221; (Where&#8217;s Your Ed At, 2025)<\/li>\n<li>Andrew J. Peterson, &#8220;AI and the Problem of Knowledge Collapse&#8221; (arXiv, 2024)<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Recht, \u201cThe Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us\u201d (Princeton University Press, 2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"110px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a42cdcdc2fe1c7f49d090c0\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>This episode also ran as an episode of <\/em>Scaling Laws<em> with an introduction from Alan Rozenshtein. Find <\/em>Scaling Laws<em> on the<\/em> Lawfare <em>website<\/em><em>, and <\/em><em>subscribe<\/em><em> to never miss an episode.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=236\">What\u2019s up with Trump\u2019s Mail-In Voting Executive Order?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To receive ad-free podcasts, become a <em>Lawfare <\/em>Material Supporter at www.patreon.com\/lawfare. You can also support <em>Lawfare <\/em>by making a one-time donation at .<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=234\">Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 26<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow discusses his perspective on artificial intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lawfare Daily: \u2018The Reverse Centaur&#039;s Guide to Life After AI\u2019\u2014A Conversation with Cory Doctorow - National Consumer Reports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=239\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lawfare Daily: \u2018The Reverse Centaur&#039;s Guide to Life After AI\u2019\u2014A Conversation with Cory Doctorow - 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