The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
4 August 2026
Summary
Whether you want to criticize, kill, or use AI, you have to get through the hype and uncover the real story. Start with labour: in automation theory, a centaur is a person who chooses to use technology to help them do the things that matter to them. A reverse centaur is a person who has been conscripted to serve as a helper for a machine, at an inhuman, machine pace: a driver made to deliver all day long, nonstop; a warehouse worker made to work without food or bathroom breaks; a programmer m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781836745884 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1836745885 |
| Author: | Cory Doctorow |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 4 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 141mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
We live in a jungle of new tools and new fables about them - and It’s genuinely confusing. Utopians battle it out with dystopians and the rest of us oscillate between awe and shock. We search for reliable guides who can tell us what’s going on and where it might take us. Cory Doctorow is the most lucid and generous guide I know of, and this book - ostensibly about AI, but more broadly about the new world of hyper-capitalism and high tech - is stunning in its clarity and breadth of vision. In trying to keep some kind of grasp on what is going on in the world, I read Doctorow obsessively. * Brian Eno *
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. He is the author of many books, including the nonfiction policy books The Internet Con and Chokepoint Capitalism, as well as the adult science fiction novels Red Team Blues and The Lost Cause, and the young adult novel Little Brother.
Doctorow has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and has received the Arthur C. Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Award and the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. He holds honorary doctorates from York University (Laws) and the Open University (Computer Science).
For twenty-five years, he has been an activist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He co-founded the UK Open Rights Group and holds visiting appointments at the Open University, MIT, Cornell, and the University of North Carolina.
Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Burbank, California.
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