The AI Con is what you get when a thesis you’ve been stochastically parroting for years is decisively disproven by the evidence: it’s a desperate and error-filled attempt to rescue a deeply implausible thesis. Nearly everything in the book is poorly reasoned or misleading. It is also written with the confidence of someone expounding trivialities, rather than arguing for a contentious thesis. The authors rarely saw the need to respond to objections.