Cory Doctorow has a useful habit of being able to coin resonant phrases which might go on to have important political impact. His characterisation of the ‘reverse centaur’ - a create with a machine head making all the decisions, which the human body simply has to ensure is executed, describes precisely the problem with ‘human-in-the-loop’ analogy - what purpose is the human if all they are going to do is rubber stamp the AI recommendation? This is the most important point made as a sidebar in this
long essay on the AI vs Creative unemployment, which is also pretty good. H/T to brainfooder
Gautam Ghosh for the share.