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

Packed with real-world examples, pithy arguments and expert insights, The AI Con arms you to spot AI hype in all its guises, expose the exploitation and power-grabs it aims to hide, and push back against it at work and in your daily life. The answers to these questions, as the expert authors of The AI Con make clear, are ''no'', ''they wish'', ''LOL'', and ''definitely not''. In fact, these fears are all symptoms of the hype being used by tech corporations to justify data theft, motivate surveillance capitalism, and devalue human creativity so they can replace meaningful work with jobs that treat people like machines. Meanwhile, across healthcare, education, media, government and law-enforcement, ‘AI’ products are already being introduced that are unreliable, ineffective, unjust and dangerous.

• | Author: Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender
• | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• | Publication Date: May 22, 2025
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781847928627
• | ISBN-10: 1847928625