{"type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "title": "The AI Con", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL7027299A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL14993777A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "key": "/works/OL42403270W", "description": "**A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this banner, and why it\u2019s 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.**\r\n\r\nIs 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?\r\n\r\nThe answer to these questions, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna make clear, is \u201cno,\u201d \u201cthey wish,\u201d \u201cLOL,\u201d and \u201cdefinitely not.\u201d This kind of thinking is a symptom of a phenomenon known as \u201cAI hype.\u201d 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.\r\n\r\nBender 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\u2019s drive for profit, with little concern for who it affects.", "subjects": ["Artificial intelligence", "Technology", "Nonfiction", "Big Tech", "Business", "Computer Technology", "Artificial intelligence\u2014Economic aspects", "Artificial intelligence\u2014Political aspects", "Artificial intelligence\u2014Social aspects", "Critical thinking", "Innovations", "Innovations\u2014Aspect e\u0301conomique", "Innovations\u2014Aspect social", "Intelligence artificielle", "Intelligence artificielle\u2014Aspect e\u0301conomique", "Intelligence artificielle\u2014Aspect politique", "Pense\u0301e critique", "Technological innovations", "Technological innovations\u2014Economic aspects", "Technological innovations\u2014Social aspects", "Racism", "White supremacy", "General intelligence", "Microsoft", "Google", "Meta (company)", "Twitter", "eugenics", "hype"], "identifiers": {"goodreads": ["223939634"], "wikidata": ["Q136341802"], "librarything": ["33554015"]}, "subject_people": ["Elon Musk (1971-)", "Sam Bankman-Fried (1992-)"], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-01-24T21:09:12.958711"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-01-31T00:14:28.277159"}}