THE AI CON — available for pre-order!
We are beyond excited to announce that our book, The AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want is now available for pre-order. It'll be released on May 13, 2025.
It will be released next year, but if you want to be sure to have it at the first possible moment, visit the ordering links from our book webpage and get your pre-order in now! Or send the web page to your local library and request that they order the book. (And while you're there, admire the domain name that Alex snagged: thecon.ai.)
Meanwhile, we've been spending this week proofreading the page galleys, making sure that all the em-dashes and en-dashes are in the right spots, that we haven't missed putting in endnotes for any claims, and that no text extruding goes unridiculed.
Along the way, we discovered an unintentional Shakespeare allusion, which we'd like to share with you here as a little book teaser:
Imagine the workplace in the future of the boosters: AI agents emailing each other, scheduling meetings for humans. But wait! You’ve been double-booked, so your AI agent will attend in your place. How delightful, a video meeting filled with AI agents, generating GPT-like text that is “spoken” aloud by a computer voice, to be heard by no one. Eric Yuan, CEO of the video-software company Zoom, gushed about this idea, bragging that soon, you won’t have to attend meetings at all! Instead, your bespoke AI avatar can attend in your stead.
We didn't do that on purpose, but we're curious if others see the similarity. Can you tell which line from which play? Hint: don't strain your ears on the way to a dusty death.