Book Signing - Cory Doctorow

For over a decade, Brain Bar has been bringing the planet's leading thinkers to Hungary. This year the authors are signing books with us, authors whose work does more than explain something: it moves you somewhere.

Perhaps the sharpest critic of commercial artificial intelligence, right here at the signing table.

Cory Doctorow is one of the defining voices of digital culture. He has written close to forty books, most of them dystopian science fiction set in the near future, yet his most important works are critical analyses of contemporary technology. He is the author of the concept of enshittification, the insight that digital platforms first serve their users, then serve only their advertisers, and finally exploit both groups in the name of profit.

Doctorow treats every technology as a question of power. He does not reject algorithmic progress, he uses AI tools himself, what he rejects is the business fantasy that invokes human replaceability in order to dismantle rights, wages and workplace autonomy around the world.

Bring your copy and talk to him about how to think about artificial intelligence before it is too late.