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Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition

Sep 18, 2026

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4 min read

Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition

The US giants would love to stop battling each other and be protected from China – and they might have hit on just the narrative to make that possible, writes our tech columnist

Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

Aug 4, 2026

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6 min read

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist

Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow: Hell is other people – so billionaires are using AI to replace them

Jun 2, 2026

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4 min read

Cory Doctorow: Hell is other people – so billionaires are using AI to replace them

The tech elite are pouring billions into dispensing with inconvenient humans. Now governments want the same trick to wish away the migrants their economies desperately need, writes the author and Nerve columnist

Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow: Comrade Trump is the unwitting hero of a green revolution

May 5, 2026

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7 min read

Cory Doctorow: Comrade Trump is the unwitting hero of a green revolution

In the first of a new monthly column for the Nerve, the author and cyber-activist argues that by dumping cheap solar panels on Asia and starting a catastrophic war in the Gulf, the president has started a headlong rush for cleantech that no eco-activism could match

Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow on stage with the Nerve: ‘The web is five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four’

Nov 26, 2025

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26 min read

Cory Doctorow on stage with the Nerve: ‘The web is five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four’

In our first live event, the author shares with Nerve co-founder Carole Cadwalladr his strong opinions on Facebook, Peter Thiel, AI – and what we can do to combat the enshittification of the internet

‘The platforms got worse because we let them’: Cory Doctorow on his fight to save the internet from enshittification

Oct 10, 2025

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15 min read

‘The platforms got worse because we let them’: Cory Doctorow on his fight to save the internet from enshittification

The author and cyber-activist argues that the tech giants have ruined life online. The only thing that can save the virtual world now, he tells Zoë Corbyn, is its users

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