Swapping money for expertise

from Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · host Cory Doctorow

This week on my podcast, I read Swapping money for expertise, a recent essay from my Pluralistic blog about the political economy of “AI” based on theory-free inference. The need to understand and describe a thing before you could apply “AI” to it is a bottleneck, because it requires programmers to understand how a thing... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2026/10/11/swapping-money-for-expertise/" class="more-link" title="Read Swapping money for expertise">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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