This month book is **"The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI**" by **Cory Doctorow**. We will meet in **Room Bee 3** in Beeston Library to discuss the book. Please come along even if you haven't read it: it's an occasion to discuss humanist issues and meet other people interested in humanism. You don't need to have read the book to come to the meeting, you just need to have an interest in the topic and in humanist values. Please support [Nottingham Humanists](https://humanists.uk/local-group/nottingham/) by registering and giving a donation on the [events page](https://humanists.uk/local-group/nottingham/events/). **Description:** *From the journalist and bestselling author of Enshittification and The Internet Con comes a brilliantly framed and powerful investigation into the impact of AI on our lives and why we should ask not only what the technology does but who it is doing it for - and to.* Whether you want to criticise, kill, or use AI, you have to get through the hype and uncover the real story. Start with labour: in automation theory, a *centaur* is a person who chooses to use technology to help them do the things that matter to them. A *reverse centaur* is a person who has been conscripted to serve as a helper for a machine, at an inhuman, machine pace: a driver made to deliver all day long, nonstop; a warehouse worker made to work without food or bathroom breaks; a programmer made to crank out impossible amounts of code. As Doctorow says: it's not enough to ask what the technology *does* \- we have to understand who it's doing it *for* and who it's doing it *to.*

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