Everyone I recommend on AI is optimistic. Except Cory Doctorow.

He punctures hype for a living — and he’s usually right about how things break.

When I started blogging in 2002, one of the first signs it was working was a link from Boing Boing. Cory Doctorow was co-editing it then.

I’m sure he has no memory of me. But I’ve read him ever since, and I’ve heard him speak a few times along the way.

I bring it up because he’s the odd one out on my list of people worth following on AI. Nearly everyone e…