This new book is a one-sided attempt to puncture the AI bubble

The AI Con
Emily Bender and Alex Hanna (Bodley Head (UK); Harper (US))

An alternative history of Silicon Valley can be told not through its successes – products like the iPhone, Facebook or Google – but through its scams, like Theranos’s faulty blood tests or FTX’s dodgy crypto accounts. From a bird’s eye view, these companies’ stories share a formula: invent a world-changing idea, generate hype, convince investors of potential, and then expand as far and fast as possible.…