“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”

Very good article, definitely worth a read

The motivation behind this religious zeal is a WORLD WITHOUT WORKERS.

All the times these fuckers tell us we can't have worker's rights, we can't have UBI, we can't have universal healthcare, we can't have subsidized housing, etc., because it's unrealistic remember that they crashed the world economy in a vain attempt to create 99% unemployment.

I mean... Everything is changing for the worse.

I mean it does change everything in that you quickly find out who is paying attention.

AI is changing everything, and the changes are all horrible.

Here's a link to the exact same post on Cory Doctorow's (tracker-free) blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/dare-snot/#i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again

The people who I work with will spend 15 minutes telling me both how great AI is and how hard it is to get it to do what you want it to do. They just don’t even listen to what they are saying.

Example: “What did you do on the weekend?” “Oh I found this cool new AI tool that lets you do . It only did and I had to do a bit of work to fix it up. But how cool?!”