AI Con

About the book

A smart, incisive take-down of so-called 'artificial intelligence', exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back.

'You need to read this book' BRIAN ENO

'Written with absolute authority and incredible wit and verve' KAREN HAO

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...