Two of the world's best-known AI insiders-turned-critics expose the lies and hype surrounding AI

Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think on its own? Are we about to enter an age where computers are better than humans at everything?

The answer to these questions is 'no', 'they wish', 'LOL', and 'definitely not'.

In The AI Con, the renowned AI insiders-turned-critics Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, offer a sharp, witty, and wide-ranging take-down of AI hype across all its forms, exposing it for what it really is- a mask for data theft, surveillance capitalism, and the devaluing of human creativity in order to replace meaningful work with jobs that treat people like machines.

While most existing books celebrate the emergence of such powerful systems, The AI Con does something more important- it reveals that under cover of its dangerous misnomer, 'artificial intelligence' is simply the tech companies' latest ploy to become the robber barons of the 21st century.