The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want by Bender

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Pages
288
Publication Date
2025-05-13
ISBN
9780063418561
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HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0063418568
ISBN-13
9780063418561
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21070936892

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Book Title
Ai Con : How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Business Ethics, Media Studies, Intelligence (Ai) & Semantics
Publication Year
2025
Genre
Computers, Social Science, Business & Economics
Author
Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender
Format
Hardcover

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0.9 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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"At a time when AI is being relentlessly pushed, puffed and promoted as the most thrilling and promising development in human history The AI Con comes, like a sorbet in the middle of a fatty banquet, as a refreshing zing of common sense...This book peels off the layers of hype and bombast to reveal the truth of how current AI models work and...[how] what is being sold as AI offers us nothing in return for the theft of our ideas and our sovereign privacy, while further enriching and empowering the already bloated tech giants who feast from our data." -- Stephen Fry
Synopsis
A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this banner, and why it's crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors at work and in the world. Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think on its own? Is it going to put authors, artists, and others out of business? Are we about to enter an age where computers are better than humans at everything? The answer to these questions, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna make clear, is "no," "they wish," "LOL," and "definitely not." This kind of thinking is a symptom of a phenomenon known as "AI hype." Hype looks and smells fishy: It twists words and helps the rich get richer by justifying data theft, motivating surveillance capitalism, and devaluing human creativity in order to replace meaningful work with jobs that treat people like machines. In The AI Con, Bender and Hanna offer a sharp, witty, and wide-ranging take-down of AI hype across its many forms. Bender and Hanna show you how to spot AI hype, how to deconstruct it, and how to expose the power grabs it aims to hide. Armed with these tools, you will be prepared to push back against AI hype at work, as a consumer in the marketplace, as a skeptical newsreader, and as a citizen holding policymakers to account. Together, Bender and Hanna expose AI hype for what it is: a mask for Big Tech's drive for profit, with little concern for who it affects.

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