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🎉 Congrats to Kevin Wilson, Uzma Jalaluddin, and Alexis Daria on making the LibraryReads May Hall of Fame! And the Notable Nonfiction pick is Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna's THE AI CON. See the thread below to hear thank you notes from the authors! bit.ly/4ltCAkq

Long gone is the self-regarding Silicon Valley mantra of “making the world a better place.” John McMurtrie on new books about #BigTech. ow.ly/cqke50VLGEp Faiz Siddiqui St. Martin's Press Flatiron Books Basic Books @emilymbender.bsky.social Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) Harper Books Chris Hayes penguinpress

Stanford University students reviewing @emilymbender.bsky.social & Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) FIERCE new book ! amazon.com/gp/product/B0D… "speaking out against peoples favorite new toys, tech leaders who appeal to a particular type of nerdy masculinity and exploitive practices, draws all kinds of negative feedback"

OUT NOW: 'The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want' the new book by BrightSight Speakers Emily M. Bender brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z/e… and Alex Hanna brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z/a… Get it at Amazon or wherever you get your books » amzn.to/4j1Azts

A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as AI, the drawbacks, pitfalls of technology sold under this banner, & more. THE AI CON by @emilymbender.bsky.social & Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) is on #audiobook, featuring narration by Jade Ramos Wheeler! 🎧 Listen with HarperAudio ➡️ shorturl.at/N3Sn4

📚 What we’re reading at AJL this month: “The AI Con” by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna Is AI really all it’s hyped up to be? In “The AI Con,” linguist Emily M. Bender (@emilymbender.bsky.social) and sociologist Alex Hanna, Ph.D. (Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا)) argue - not even close. Through sharp analysis

"In their new book, The AI Con, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna examine the widespread hype surrounding #ArtificialIntelligence, arguing that an overemphasis on the prima facie existential threats posed by #AI distracts from the real harms it already

If Microsoft is laying off 6,000 people, including their Director of AI for Startups, how can people seriously think the tech and AI sector is healthy and booming. This should be a major red flag for anyone paying attention.

Next: @EmilyMBender, linguistics prof @ University of Washington, who coined the “stochastic parrots” label, & @AlexHanna, Dir. of R&D @ Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon. They just released "The AI Con." We'll talk about cycles & effects of hype, “Slow Science”, more.  Link here Mon 10 AM PDT aiandyou.net

Design of AI's latest episode 34. Bullshit Mountain: Unmasking AI's Empty Promises w/ The AI Con authors Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna - designof.ai/episode/34-bul… via Podcastpage.io

THE AI CON by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna published in hardback today! #THEAICON #TheBodleyHead @emilymbender.bsky.social Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) Vintage Books

We’re two and a half years into the AI hype cycle. How is it still going? This week @emilymbender.bsky.social and Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) join Paris Marx to dig into the harms of generative AI and industry strategies to keep the public’s attention. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/277_ge…

AI Con is such a great starting point for people looking to understand what’s wrong with generative AI. It was a pleasure to chat with @emilymbender.bsky.social and Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) about their new book!

There is so much AI Hype right now, and so I'm grateful to have done a deep dive with "The AI Con" book authors @emilymbender.bsky.social & Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) that comprehensively breaks down some of the more hyperbolic claims & harms of AI & LLMs. voicesofvr.com/1563-deconstru…

“AGI” is a vague signifier for a technology that will somehow lead to endless abundance — and conveniently also a means to avoid accountability as tech moguls make off with billions in capital investment and public spending. By Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) @emilymbender.bsky.social techpolicy.press/the-myth-of-ag…

It’s easy to forget that these magical mystery machines are direct descendants of the “T9 word” I used for texting on my Nokia brick. I chat with Emily and Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) about what the boosters and doomers both get wrong about these big piles of linear algebra.

We need progressive legislators to not buy into this clown show. Labor replacement is not real, labor displacement is. We need regulation to protect workers and anticipate the kind of worker speedups that employers buying into the hype will cause.

enjoy this moment everyone. sooner or later hillary's gonna post about it and it'll stop being funny

I've been studying the genre for years and this, right here, is the gayest thing anyone has ever said.

🚨 [AI BOOK CLUB] "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" by @emilymbender.bsky.social & Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) is a GREAT read for everyone interested in AI, and it's our 🎉 23rd selected book: 📖 About the book "A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as