The AI Boogeyman: How Fear Is Sold to Working Families
HOAXED is a new book by Homer Hartage that challenges the fear driven narrative surrounding artificial intelligence. While headlines warn that AI is coming for your job, your privacy, and your future, corporations, wealthy investors, and well connected professionals are already using it to save money, move faster, and make better decisions. HOAXED makes the case that working families deserve that same advantage, not more reasons to be afraid. Available now for pre-order, HOAXED ships November 30, 2026.
Who Is Already Benefiting From AI
In healthy families, information moves freely and decisions get made with confidence. That is normal. That is how progress works. But when access to a powerful tool is uneven, so is opportunity, and that is exactly what has happened with artificial intelligence.
Corporations, wealthy investors, and well connected professionals are already using AI to save money, move faster, and make better informed decisions, while working families are told mainly to be afraid of the same technology.
HOAXED closes that gap. It shows ordinary people how to use AI for the things that matter: confronting debt, researching major purchases, writing stronger resumes, understanding complicated information, supporting aging relatives, improving a business, and finding opportunities that are often hidden behind confusing systems.
- What corporations already know: businesses and institutions use AI every day to cut costs, move faster, and gain an edge, without apologizing for it.
- What working families are told instead: warnings and hesitation, while the same tools that could help them go unused.
Why This Book and Why Now
Fear sells. It keeps people cautious, dependent, and slow to act, while those who already have access keep moving ahead.
Homer Hartage does not ask readers to trust AI blindly. He asks them to stop surrendering a valuable tool because someone else taught them to be afraid of it.
Written for parents, workers, small business owners, and anyone tired of waiting for permission, HOAXED is an invitation to stop watching from the sidelines and start using the tools that are already changing who gets ahead.
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