{"product_id":"9781529949902-the-ai-con","title":"The AI Con","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘You need to read this book’ \u003cb\u003eBRIAN ENO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Written with absolute authority and incredible wit and verve’ \u003cb\u003eKAREN HAO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHave tech companies created artificial minds? Are they going to replace all our jobs? Will they take over the world?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe answers to these questions, as the expert authors of \u003ci\u003eThe AI Con \u003c\/i\u003emake 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePacked with real-world examples of the injustices and harms already being done in the name of ‘AI’, \u003ci\u003eThe AI Con \u003c\/i\u003earms 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A must-read.provide[s] the clearest picture yet of what AI is, what it is not, and why none of us need to accept it being shoved down our throats’ \u003c\/b\u003eTIMNIT GEBRU\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A powerful antidote to the hype’ \u003c\/b\u003eGRACE BLAKELEY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Truly eye-opening.indispensable’ \u003c\/b\u003eHA-JOON CHANG\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A book to inoculate your mind’ \u003c\/b\u003eYANIS VAROUFAKIS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Refreshing.persuasive’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56409887834486,"sku":"9781529949902","price":11.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41142739_4588d081-8369-49a1-b1af-cb183c2cd836.jpg?v=1778120010","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529949902-the-ai-con","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}