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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You Talked to Workers for This Labor Research... Right? (with Sophie Song), 2025.11.17 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Dec 2, 2025
Drag It All To Hell, 2025.10.27 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Nov 18, 2025
Crunching the Numbers (with Decca Muldowney), 2025.10.20 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Oct 30, 2025
Building Worlds Through Better Reading (with Reo Eveleth), 2025.09.29 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Oct 14, 2025
Three Years of Ridicule as Praxis, 2025.09.19 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Oct 1, 2025
The Robo-Therapist Will See You Now (with Maggie Harrison Dupré), 2025.08.18 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Sep 11, 2025
Winning the Race to Hell (with Sarah Myers West and Kate Brennan), 2025.08.04 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Aug 26, 2025
Vibe Coding: Four Security Nightmares in a Trenchcoat (with Susanna Cox), 2025.07.21 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Aug 13, 2025
Et Tu, American Federation of Teachers? (with Charles Logan), 2025.07.14 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Jul 30, 2025
Why "AI" Is a Con: Our Book Launch! (with Vauhini Vara), 2025.05.08 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Jul 7, 2025
"Like Magic Intelligence in the Cloud", 2025.05.26 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Jun 20, 2025
The "AI"-Enabled Immigration Panopticon (with Petra Molnar), 2025.05.05 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · May 28, 2025
AGI: "Imminent", "Inevitable", and Inane, 2025.04.21 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · May 14, 2025
AI Hell in a Handbasket, 2025.04.14 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Apr 30, 2025
"AI" Agents, A Single Point of Failure (with Margaret Mitchell), 2025.03.31 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Apr 17, 2025
Linguists Versus 'AI' Speech Analysis (with Nicole Holliday), 2025.03.17 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Apr 2, 2025
The Anti-Bookclub Tackles 'Superagency', 2025.03.03 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Mar 19, 2025
The War on Knowledge (with Raina Bloom), 2025.02.24 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Mar 5, 2025
Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese), 2025.01.27 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Feb 19, 2025
The UK's Misplaced Enthusiasm (with Gina Neff), 2025.01.20 Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender · contributed by Lukas · Feb 5, 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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