What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - A.I. Enshittifies Everything (Still)

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - A.I. Enshittifies Everything (Still)

Published: August 28, 2026

Duration: 32:39

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.”


This episode originally aired June 26. TBD will be back to regularly scheduled programming next week.


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