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How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

The hype is real. Or is it? Since autumn 2022 the AI hype train has been speeding through our lives. From AI Boomers telling us AI will save the world to AI Doomers warning that it will be the end of us. Who is right? They are both wrong, is the answer that Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna give in their book. Generative AI is not a god-like super entity but a machine that tricks us into believing it can think. The authors describe how the boom and doom narratives merely provide a useful distraction for tech companies making big money riding the AI hype train; while ignoring the very real (and harmful!) consequences these technologies already have on people’s lives.

Yannick Fella, Medienpädagoge in der EwB