Hello everyone! Welcome to the AI Skeptics Reading Group. This week we're finishing The AI Con by Dr. Alex Hanna & Dr. Emily M. Bender.

This week I'm reading Chapter 7: Do You Believe in Hope after Hype?"

For our regular weekly meeting on Thursday at 8pm ET, Alex Hanna will join us to discuss the book and to talk through organizing and activism against AI and Big Tech.

As always, there are various ways to participate and get involved in the reading group:

• this newsletter: obviously you'll get emails if you subscribe. I usually send emails on Mondays and Thursdays.
• video chats: on Thursdays at 8pm ET at https://al2.in/ReadingGroupRoom
• signal group chat for people who would like to chat about the content from this week's readings over text, or who can't participate in video chats. You can join the signal chat here.
• social media: I'm on twitter/x, bluesky, mastodon, etc... and I'll post about reading group stuff sometimes.

Okay, that's all for now; hope to chat on signal, or see you on Thursday!