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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
(www.thenerve.news)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
apparently ai just broke a cryptographic scheme, hawk, that the us government was assessing to standardize.
Unfortunately I don't think they are wrong about it changing everything, I just don't think it will be a positive change for most people.
Oh, has he had a change of heart? A few months ago he was being dragged on mastodon for telling everyone to stop complaining about AI.
link?
he's been skeptical of at least the finance side of it since sept 2025: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-27-econopocalypse-subprime-intelligence-e9a06136d109