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Cory Doctorow’s “Reverse Centaur” book — why AI is hell on workers

Mark Frauenfelder
May 14, 2026
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The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, by Cory Doctorow

A centaur is a person assisted by a machine — anything from a bicycle to a spell-checker. A reverse centaur, Cory Doctorow says, is “a person who has been conscripted to assist a machine.” Most of the people AI is being inflicted on today are reverse centaurs — warehouse pickers, gig drivers,…

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