About the book

In THE AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want, Emily M. Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna meticulously break down and reconstruct how we think about so-called artificial intelligence and, in doing so, upend the overblown claims of AI hype. With expertise drawn from years of scholarship, Bender and Hanna offer keen perspective and pointed humor as they explain how these technologies actually work. They go on to investigate attempts to use these tools in government, law, healthcare, journalism, art and beyond — and the damage being done amid the broken promises of the technology. And they show how the outlandish claims about AI’s potential and dangers alike are manufactured and perpetuated by the very billionaires who stand to gain the most from a free market embrace of AI. Fortunately, Bender and Hanna also provide a guide that anyone can use to cut through all this AI hype in the workplace, at school, in our communities and at home.

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About Dr. Alex Hanna

Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and a Lecturer in the School of Information at the University of California Berkeley. She is an outspoken critic of the tech industry, a proponent of community-based uses of technology, and expert who has been featured across the media, including articles in the Washington Post, Financial Times, The Atlantic, and Time.

About Dr. Milagros Miceli

Milagros Miceli leads the research group “Data, Algorithmic Systems, and Ethics“ at the Weizenbaum Institute. Her project The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers join us as community researchers to lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces.