{"id":239867,"date":"2026-06-28T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/cory-doctorow-on-ai-the-singularity-is-a-progressive-apocalypse"},"modified":"2026-06-28T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:11:50","slug":"cory-doctorow-on-ai-the-singularity-is-a-progressive-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/cory-doctorow-on-ai-the-singularity-is-a-progressive-apocalypse","title":{"rendered":"Cory Doctorow on AI: The Singularity Is A Progressive Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cory-doctorow-on-ai-the-singularity-is-a-progressive-apocalypse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/196662655-singularity1on1-cory-doctorow.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Fourteen years ago, Cory Doctorow told me the #Singularity is a progressive apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>I have not stopped thinking about that phrase since.<\/p>\n<p>We like to imagine the future as one clean break. A line crossed. A god booted up in a server farm. Cory saw something stranger. The end of the world, sold to us as the perfection of the world. Rapture for the people who swapped faith for code.<\/p>\n<p>His sharpest point was about stories. Good #ScienceFiction does not predict the future. It predicts the present. The genre is not a telescope. It is a mirror.<\/p>\n<p>Re-listening in 2026, the reflection is uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>The surveillance he warned about is now infrastructure. The platforms he distrusted now mediate almost everything we do. We still treat the internet as a glorified video-on-demand service, and we still pour everything we are onto it anyway.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/cory-doctorow-on-ai-the-singularity-is-a-progressive-apocalypse\">Continue reading \u201cCory Doctorow on AI: The Singularity Is A Progressive Apocalypse\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen years ago, Cory Doctorow told me the #Singularity is a progressive apocalypse. I have not stopped thinking about that phrase since. We like to imagine the future as one clean break. A line crossed. A god booted up in a server farm. Cory saw something stranger. The end of the world, sold to us [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6,64,8,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-space","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}