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Idk if Doctorow actually coined it but its already part of my vocabulary. People that clean up AI code are reverse-centaurs by this terminology. People that are not using tools but are subservient to them, forced to deal with the AIs failings.
https://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-term-of-day-is-reverse-centaur.html?m=1
Or as Marx put it, humans are reduced to "conscious linkages" in the machine.
Eg an automation that can act on and through us, while we lack the ability to act upon it (speaking of the dominant tech + finance system workers are forced to slot themselves into). I'm paraphrasing Bifo poorly here.