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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

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AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

The featured essay AI (artificial intelligence) This article is more than 4 months old AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage This article is more than 4 months old AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots Cory Doctorow Sun 18 Jan 2026 09.00 EST Last modified on Tue 20 Jan 2026 13.37 EST Share View image in fullscreen I am a science-fiction writer, which means that my job is to make up futuristic parables about our current techno-social arrangements to interrogate not

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