The AI Con

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Carrie and Megan talk with Drs Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, and Alex Hanna, Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), about their new book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, out May 13, 2025.

• Virtual Book Launch May 8, 2025, 2-4 PDT
• Bender v. Bubeck
• Inventing Intelligence: On the History of Complex Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence in the United States in the Mid-Twentieth Century
• Roxane Gay's anti-AI stance
• The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence 
• The Conduit Metaphor
• Kevin Roose's Conversation with Bing
• Mystery AI Hype Theatre 3000 

Intro:

• UK ruling on the legal definition of "woman"
• JK Rowling looking smug

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