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Cory Doctorow describes a "reverse centaur" as a worker that's tasked with babysitting (in this case) the output of an LLM to make sure that it isn't wrong, as it often is. A plain old "centaur" would be a worker that uses technologies that make the work that they do easier and faster, like a centaur who uses their horse legs to run faster than a human. The "reverse centaur" would be a human with the head of a horse, where the human body would listen to the head of the horse (or LLM). That situation doesn't benefit the human nor the horse part.
Exactly, thank you for adding this.
The fact that AI is making reverse centaurs out of us really sticks out to me whenever I watch Star Trek. The way they interact with the computer in Trek makes me wistful for what AI could be, if it were being developed in a more human centred way.