Cory Doctorow on How to Think About Artificial Intelligence ⁠71%

6/16/2026, 4:14:24 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Pessimism Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Loss Aversion, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 57.1% saturation with 44 hits. Analysis detected 305 faulty-reasoning hits from 77 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 63.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠71% (6,246 of 21,173 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 70.50% of the article peer group.

In the future, artificial intelligence will make us either centaurs or reverse-centaurs. 
If that made no sense at all, Cory Doctorow is joining us to explain. 
GUEST – 
Cory Doctorow | He’s a science fiction author, activist and journalist. 
His book is called “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence — Before It’s Too Late.” 
Airdate: June 18 and 20, 2026 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 18.2%KUER: 2.8%Confirmation Bias18.2%This article: 0.0%KUER: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 3.4%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 15.6%KUER: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic15.6%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 1.9%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 57.1%KUER: 7.4%Framing Effect57.1%This article: 29.9%KUER: 1.3%Loss Aversion29.9%This article: 0.0%KUER: 1.2%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 29.9%KUER: 4.4%Optimism Bias29.9%This article: 45.5%KUER: 2.4%Pessimism Bias45.5%This article: 0.0%KUER: 6.3%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 2.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 1.9%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 14.3%KUER: 2.3%Halo Effect14.3%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 1.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 18.2%KUER: 0.3%Primacy Effect18.2%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 32.5%KUER: 4.7%Appeal to Authority32.5%This article: 15.6%KUER: 1.7%False Dilemma15.6%This article: 0.0%KUER: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 29.9%KUER: 0.7%Bandwagon29.9%This article: 29.9%KUER: 5.6%Appeal to Emotion29.9%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 2.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 3.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER: 2.2%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 18.2%KUER: 1.6%Indoctrination18.2%This article: 11.7%KUER: 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias11.7%This article: 0.0%KUER: 0.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 29.9%KUER: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…29.9%

77 words analyzed.

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Writer's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageCory Doctorow • 11 words • 0.0% coverageCory Doctorow • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverage
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Cory Doctorow

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34 attributed words100% of attributed speech81% writer coverage
0%35.0%70.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +67.6 ptsWriter: 0.0%Cory Doctorow: 67.6%67.6%Indoctrination-32.6 ptsWriter: 32.6%Cory Doctorow: 0.0%0.0%Politically Left Leaning B-20.9 ptsWriter: 20.9%Cory Doctorow: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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