{"id":77806,"date":"2025-06-24T03:57:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/?p=77806"},"modified":"2025-06-21T16:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:07:18","slug":"foolhardy-at-best-and-deceptive-and-dangerous-at-worst-dont-believe-the-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/foolhardy-at-best-and-deceptive-and-dangerous-at-worst-dont-believe-the-hype\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolhardy at best, and deceptive and dangerous at worst: Don’t believe the hype"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Emily M. Bender<\/a>,\u00a0Alex Hanna<\/a> – The hype around\u00a0artificial intelligence<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(AI) risks spiraling out of control as claims around the emerging technology escalate into the realm of the absurd. AI is a big-money business, write the authors of the new book, “THE AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want<\/u><\/a>” (2025), and the marketing fanfare we see is meant to promote the interests of big tech and do one thing: sell AI products.<\/p>\n

In this new book, authors\u00a0Emily M. Bender<\/u><\/a>, professor of linguistics at the University of Washington, and\u00a0Alex Hanna<\/u><\/a>, director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute, challenge our understanding of what AI is \u2014 and what it isn’t. Ultimately, they attempt to see through a lot of the overblown claims and sensationalism to understand the true impact AI is having on society.<\/p>\n