Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

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Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from ficti...

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Manifesting the End of Tech Bro Manifestos, 2026.09.08 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · 16h ago
Working 9 to Hype, 2026.08.10 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · 15 days ago
Rumors of a Singularity Have Been Grossly Exaggerated, 2026.08.03 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · 29 days ago
Who's Responsible for "Responsible AI"?, 2026.07.06 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Aug 4
State of Emergency, 2026.06.29 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Jul 23
When the Bubble Bursts (with Matt Scherer), 2026.06.01 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Jul 7
Beware the 20x Engineer, 2026.05.11 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Jun 24
Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole (with Dr. Nathalie Maréchal), 2026.05.04 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Jun 9
LIVE: Anthropic Imagines a Very Special Boy, 2026.04.30 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · May 26
Hotter Than (AI) Hell, 2026.04.20 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · May 13
There's No Ghost in the Machine (with Carmen Maria Machado), 2026.04.13 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Apr 28
Uber for Military Surveillance (with Niamh McIntyre), 2026.03.30 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Apr 16
Data Centers Go Nuclear (with Maia Woluchem and Dr. Livia Garofalo), 2026.03.09 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Mar 31
Data Centers in Space!? (with Dr. Adam Becker), 2026.03.02 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Mar 17
How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI (with Naomi Klein), 2026.02.09 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Feb 26
A Bad Case of Hype-itis, 2026.02.02 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Feb 12
Hell All the Way Down, 2022–2025 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Jan 30
Wrapping Up a Hellish 2025, 2025.12.15 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Jan 13
Defining AGI: Oops! All Eugenics, 2025.12.08 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Dec 30, 2025
This is What Algo-cracy Looks Like, 2025.12.01 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Dec 16, 2025
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Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They're joined by special guests and talk about everything, from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines.

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