Sasha Barbour Gatt

speaker

5,406 appearances 37 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard yesterday

Sasha Barbour Gatt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 37 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 20.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The Briefing · Ed Sheeran responds to Macklemore axing + No, AI isn't going to destroy us all · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

Having such big players in the space make these claims understandably sent the world into a tailspin. voice-verified

But is what they're saying the reality, or is it pure theatrics? voice-verified

Joining me today is someone who thinks the hype around AI is massively overstated and that we are being distracted, possibly on purpose, from the real problems presented by this technology. voice-verified

Professor Emily M. voice-verified

Bender is the director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory at the University of Washington. voice-verified

She's also written a book on the topic. voice-verified

It's called The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech Hype and Create the Future We Want. voice-verified

Professor, welcome to the briefing. voice-verified

Before we get to the arguments around whether AI really can destroy humanity, you think the way we speak about artificial intelligence in general is highly flawed? voice-verified

Can you explain to us? voice-verified

What is the risk or the impact of those things then? voice-verified

So either humanizing the way we talk about this technology and also trying to lump it all into one category, what is that actually doing to how we understand and interpret the technology itself? voice-verified

So that kind of gets us set on this idea of your position on AI or artificial intelligence, um, however you want to understand it. voice-verified

But this week we've had three major tech bosses come out to say and and others, the considered godfather of AI, researchers, people who have worked in the space, people still working in the space. voice-verified

There's been this big groundswell in the last week of people saying that AI voice-verified

is on track to destroy humanity and soon, not, you know, in a hundred years. voice-verified

They're saying some are saying by the end of the decade. voice-verified

So should we believe them? voice-verified

I do want to get into the distraction side of things in a minute, but I guess I want to understand a bit better why why we shouldn't believe them because a chatbot doesn't represent all of AI. voice-verified

We know that it's used for lots of different things. voice-verified

Showing 1161–1180 of 5,406 · page 59 of 271