Key Facts
- Researchers Emily Bender and Alex Hanna aim to challenge the perceived hype surrounding artificial intelligence in their upcoming book titled The AI Con.
- The authors hope to pierce the hype bubble and clarify how AI works and who benefits from it.
- In AI Con, launching next Tuesday, the authors begin by questioning the very term “artificial intelligence”.
- Bender and Hanna highlight the harms in technology production, encompassing data theft and labor exploitation, justified by ongoing hype.