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

Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Publishing (Vintage)
Published: July 23, 2026
ISBN: 9781529949902
288 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£12.99

Have tech companies created artificial minds? Are they going to replace all our jobs? Will they take over the world?

The answers to these questions, as the expert authors of The AI Con make clear, are ‘no’, ‘they wish’ and ‘LOL, definitely not’. In fact, these fears are all symptoms of the hype being used to justify data theft, motivate surveillance capitalism and devalue human creativity in order to replace meaningful work with jobs that treat people like machines.

Packed with real-world examples of the injustices and harms already being done in the name of ‘AI’, The AI Con arms you to spot the hype in all its guises, expose the exploitation it aims to hide and push back against it at work and in your daily life.

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