Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna w/ Anna Lauren Hoffmann

Linguist and educator Emily M. Bender and social scientist Alex Hanna visit the store to discuss their new book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want, with Anna Lauren Hoffman. A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors at work and in the world.

Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? [...]