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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

A.I. Enshittifies Everything

What Next | Daily News and Analysis · Jun 26, 2026 · 32:01

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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.


Guest: Cory Doctorow, sci-fi author, journalist, blogger and author of “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.”


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