person
Cory Doctorow
EFF special advisor; 'enshittification' coiner
Long-time digital rights activist and EFF advisor. Argues AI is being driven by the same 'enshittification' dynamic that decayed social platforms, and that capture of AI policy by incumbents will make it worse.
Profile
expertise
Policy / meta
Specialises in AI policy, regulation, governance, philanthropy, or movement strategy. Reads the technical literature but does not produce it.
Author and EFF fellow. 'Enshittification' (2023) framed platform decay; many AI-policy essays at Pluralistic. Technical fluency on systems and DRM, less on ML proper.
recognition
Household name
Name recognition outside the AI/CS community. Featured by mainstream press, a Wikipedia page in many languages, a published bestseller, or holds a position the lay public knows.
Widely-followed blog and SF author. Mainstream press regular.
vintage
Post-ChatGPT
Entered the AI strategy debate in or after 2023. ChatGPT was already public when their voice became influential. Often shaped by Pause letter, AISIs, AI 2027.
Enshittification framing 2023. AI essays at Pluralistic intensify post-ChatGPT.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Antitrust primacyendorses
Break concentration via competition lawArgues the actual AI policy question is about competition, labour, and interoperability, not existential risk.
“AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100 percent convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job.”
“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”
Closest strategy neighbours
by jaccard overlapOther people whose strategy tags overlap with Cory Doctorow's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.
Record last updated 2026-04-25.