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

Emily M. Bender (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 1847928625 / ISBN 13: 9781847928627

Published by Random House UK Ltd, 2025

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The AI Con | How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want | Emily M. Bender (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | XII | Englisch | 2025 | Random House UK Ltd | EAN 9781847928627 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, 22083 Hamburg, gpsr[at]petersen-buchimport[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The AI Con | How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
• Publisher: Random House UK Ltd
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847928625
• ISBN 13: 9781847928627
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 228W x 153H x 27D millimeters 228 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 355 grams
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Synopsis

Is AI going to take over the world? Have scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think on its own? Is it going to replace all our jobs? Are we about to enter an age where computers are better than humans at everything? 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. 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.

About the Authors

Dr Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington. Her work, including the touchstone ‘Stochastic Parrots’ paper, brings a linguistic perspective to how large language models work and why the illusion they produce is so compelling. In 2023 she was included in the inaugural TIME100 AI list of most influential people in AI.

Dr Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and a former senior research scientist on Google's Ethical AI team. She is an outspoken critic of the tech industry and a proponent of community-based uses of technology.