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Skeptical about AI? So are these books.

There's a lot of excitement around AI, genAI, LLMs, etc.--there's also a lot of marketing and hype. These authors offer some more critical perspectives.

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  • The AI Con

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

    Bender, Emily M., 1973-
    Book, 2025New York : Harper/HarperCollinsPublishers, 2025. — 006.3 BENDER
  • AI Needs You

    How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own

    Harding, Verity, 1984-
    Book, 2024Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024 — 303.4834 HARDING
  • AI Snake Oil

    What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference

    Narayanan, Arvind
    Book, 2024Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024. — 006.3 NARAYANAN
  • The Algorithm

    How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now

    Schellmann, Hilke
    Book, 2024New York : Hachette Books/Hachette Book Group, 2024. — 303.483 SCHELLMANN
  • Code Dependent

    Living in the Shadow of AI

    Murgia, Madhumita
    Book, 2024New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2024. — 303.4834 MURGIA
  • The Coming Wave

    Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

    Suleyman, Mustafa
    Book, 2023New York : Crown, 2023. — 303.483 SULEYMAN
  • Empire of AI

    Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

    Hao, Karen
    Book, 2025New York : Penguin Press, 2025. — 006.3 HAO
  • Feeding the Machine

    the Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.

    Muldoon, James, 1985-
    Book, 2024New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — 620.82 GRAHAM
  • I, Human

    AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique

    Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas
    Book, 2023Boston : Harvard Business Review Press, 2023. — 303.483 CHAMORRO-PREMUZIC
  • More Everything Forever

    AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

    Becker, Adam
    Book, 2025New York : Basic Books, 2025. — 658.514 BECKER
  • More Than Words

    How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI

    Warner, John, 1970-
    Book, 2025New York : Basic Books, 2025. — 808.00285635 WARNER
  • Unmasking AI

    My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

    Buolamwini, Joy
    Book, 2023New York : Random House, 2023. — 006.3 BUOLAMWINI