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Alex Hanna

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Dr. Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and a Lecturer in the School of Information at the University of California Berkeley. She is an outspoken critic of the tech industry, a proponent of community-based uses of technology, and a highly sought-after speaker and expert who has been featured across the media, including articles in the Washington Post, Financial Times, The Atlantic, and Time. She is a coauthor of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want (aff).

Contributions from Alex Hanna

Fighting AI Hype, w/ Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna

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This week on the show, hosts of the podcast "Mystery A.I. Hype Theater 3000," Emily M. Bender (Professor of Linguistics at Washington University) and Alex Hanna (Director of Research of the Distributed AI Research Institute), join Cayden to help make sense of the inescapable hype of all things “Artificial Intelligence”. What’s being over-sold? What are the actual threats? And what exactly are we talking about when we say A.I.? Hype or not, the advancement of technology in the workplace has strong implications for workers which some unions and communities are already organizing to protect themselves against.