Book review: The AI Con: How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype And Create The Future We Want by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

by Ian SinclairMorning Star2 October 2025 IN AUGUST, Sam Altman, the CEO of Open AI, claimed “a kid born today will never be smarter than AI [Artificial Intelligence], ever.” A couple of days before, Demis Hassabis, the head of Google’s DeepMind, told the Guardian “we’ll have something that we could sort of reasonably call AGI [ ]