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Emily M. Bender

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Dr. Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington where she is also the Faculty Director of the Computational Linguistics Master of Science program and affiliate faculty in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Information School. In 2023, she was included in the inaugural Time 100 list of the most influential people in AI. She is frequently consulted by policymakers, from municipal officials to the federal government to the United Nations, for insight into how to understand so-called AI technologies. She is a coauthor of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want (aff).

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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.