Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
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.
Episodes (176)
There's No Ghost in the Machine (with Carmen Maria Machado), 2026.04.13
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Uber for Military Surveillance (with Niamh McIntyre), 2026.03.30
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Data Centers Go Nuclear (with Maia Woluchem and Dr. Livia Garofalo), 2026.03.09
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Data Centers in Space!? (with Dr. Adam Becker), 2026.03.02
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How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI (with Naomi Klein),...
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A Bad Case of Hype-itis, 2026.02.02
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Hell All the Way Down, 2022–2025
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Wrapping Up a Hellish 2025, 2025.12.15
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Defining AGI: Oops! All Eugenics, 2025.12.08
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This is What Algo-cracy Looks Like, 2025.12.01
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You Talked to Workers for This Labor Research... Right? (with Sophie Song), 2025...
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Drag It All To Hell, 2025.10.27
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Crunching the Numbers (with Decca Muldowney), 2025.10.20
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Building Worlds Through Better Reading (with Reo Eveleth), 2025.09.29
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Three Years of Ridicule as Praxis, 2025.09.19
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The Robo-Therapist Will See You Now (with Maggie Harrison Dupré), 2025.08.18
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Winning the Race to Hell (with Sarah Myers West and Kate Brennan), 2025.08.04
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Vibe Coding: Four Security Nightmares in a Trenchcoat (with Susanna Cox), 2025.0...
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Et Tu, American Federation of Teachers? (with Charles Logan), 2025.07.14
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Why "AI" Is a Con: Our Book Launch! (with Vauhini Vara), 2025.05.08
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"Like Magic Intelligence in the Cloud", 2025.05.26
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The "AI"-Enabled Immigration Panopticon (with Petra Molnar), 2025.05.05
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AGI: "Imminent", "Inevitable", and Inane, 2025.04.21
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AI Hell in a Handbasket, 2025.04.14
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"AI" Agents, A Single Point of Failure (with Margaret Mitchell), 2025.03.31
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Linguists Versus 'AI' Speech Analysis (with Nicole Holliday), 2025.03.17
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The Anti-Bookclub Tackles 'Superagency', 2025.03.03
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The War on Knowledge (with Raina Bloom), 2025.02.24
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Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese), 2025.01.27
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The UK's Misplaced Enthusiasm (with Gina Neff), 2025.01.20
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Sam Altman's Fever Dream, 2025.01.13
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Episode 47: Hell is Other People's AI Hype, December 9 2024
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Episode 46: AGI Funny Business (Model), with Brian Merchant, December 2 2024
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Episode 45: Billionaires, Influencers, and Ed Tech (feat. Adrienne Williams), No...
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Episode 44: OpenAI's Ridiculous 'Reasoning', October 28 2024
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Episode 43: AI Companies Gamble with Everyone's Planet (feat. Paris Marx), Octob...
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Episode 42: Stop Trying to Make 'AI Scientist' Happen, September 30 2024
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Episode 41: Sweating into AI Fall, September 9 2024
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 40: Elders Need Care, Not 'AI' Surveillanc...
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Episode 39: Newsrooms Pivot to Bullshit (feat. Sam Cole), Aug 5 2024
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Episode 38: Deflating Zoom's 'Digital Twin,' July 29 2024
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Episode 37: Chatbots Aren't Nurses (feat. Michelle Mahon), July 22 2024
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Episode 36: About That 'Dangerous Capabilities' Fanfiction (feat. Ali Alkhatib),...
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Episode 35: AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire (feat. Safiya Noble), June 1...
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Episode 34: Senate Dot Roadmap Dot Final Dot No Really Dot Docx, June 3 2024
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Episode 33: Much Ado About 'AI' 'Deception', May 20 2024
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Episode 32: A Flood of AI Hell, April 29 2024
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Episode 31: Science Is a Human Endeavor (feat. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri),...
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Episode 30: Marc's Miserable Manifesto, April 1 2024
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Episode 29: How LLMs Are Breaking the News (feat. Karen Hao), March 25 2024
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