A Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Being a Better AI Critic

AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can surely convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that CAN'T do your job, which is bad news for all of us (even your boss!). Being a good AI critic means understanding the material basis for the AI bubble, because until you understand that, you'll be easy pickings for the hype machine, and AI bosses will send you running in circles, hacking away at mere ornaments on the edifice of fraud that AI is built upon.

Cory Doctorow, A.D White Professor-at-Large, a science fiction author, activist and journalist. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

*Reception to follow from 7:15 – 8:00pm in Baker Portico