The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, by Cory Doctorow A centaur is a person assisted by a machine — anything from a bicycle to a spell-checker. A reverse centaur, Cory Doctorow says, is "a person who has been conscripted to assist a machine." Most of the people AI is being inflicted on today are reverse centaurs — warehouse pickers, gig drivers, and coders forced to do the work of six laid-off colleagues at a pace that makes good work impossible, then blamed when the AI output is defective. Cory Doctorow, who was the first co-editor at Boing Boing, launched a Kickstarter for his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI . It blew past its $10,000 goal in days. From the Kickstarter: I wrote this book because I was totally fed up with how much space AI was taking up in the world, in our conversations, in our policy, and in our economy. In a reasonable world, we'd call these AI tools "plug-ins" and we'd use them or not, based on our assessment of whether they make sense for our use.…