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Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna: The AI Con (Hardcover, Penguin Random House)

A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing …

We don't have to accept this

AI is being increasingly pushed as inevitable everywhere, but this book provides hope and recommendations for how to see through that hype. I had a slightly different perspective than most of the audience of this book, as a developer who has worked for years in language technology, but for the most part, the technical details matched my experience. I definitely recommend this book for anyone wanting to push back on the attempts by businesses and government agencies to automate away our jobs, knowledge, and vital services, which has become even more important in the last few months.