Artificial intelligence, if we're being frank, is a con: a bill of goods you are being sold to line someone's pockets. That is the heart of the argument that linguist Emily Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna make in their new book The AI Con . It's a useful guide for anyone whose life has intersected with technologies sold as artificial intelligence and anyone who's questioned their real usefulness, which is most of us. Bender is a professor at the University of
