Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna publish the book The AI Con
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Published the book The AI Con — framed AI hype as a mask for Big Tech profit-seeking and argued that current systems are not thinking beings but text and media generators shaped by training data and human labor
Why it matters
A popular-book expansion of the 2021 stochastic parrots paper. By criticizing existential risk discourse itself as a device that diverts attention from present harms, it sharpened the split between the safety camp and the critical camp
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