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The AI Con

How to fight big tech's hype and create the future we want

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Emily M. Bender

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Mentioned in 19 episodes

Recommended by Paris Marx as a concise and detailed primer on AI hype, its problems, and ways to push back.

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Generative AI is Not Inevitable w/ Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

Mentioned by

Alex Kantrowitz as the topic of the podcast episode, discussing the layered ways today’s language-model boom obscures environmental costs, labor harms, and shaky science.

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AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking — With Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

Mentioned by

Emily M. Bender as their book and encourages listeners to buy it.

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The "AI"-Enabled Immigration Panopticon (with Petra Molnar), 2025.05.05

Written by Emily Bender and

Alex Hanna to encourage a more critical look at AI.

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AI is more marketing hype than real capabilities, new book suggests

Mentioned by Rowan Hooper as a new book.

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The real threat of AI - ethics, exploitation and the erosion of truth

Mentioned in the podcast outro as a book available for pre-order.

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The War on Knowledge (with Raina Bloom), 2025.02.24

Mentioned by

Jathan Sadowski as a needed guide to understanding AI and the promises being made in Silicon Valley.

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408. Synthetic Text Extruder Hype (ft. Emily Bender, Alex Hanna)

Mentioned in the podcast outro as a book available for pre-order.

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Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese), 2025.01.27

Written by Emily Bender and

Alex Hanna to discuss the misuse of the term AI and the impact of Big Tech's models on marginalized communities.

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Emily Bender & Alex Hanna: “The AI Con”

Mentioned by Bonni Stachowiak as the focus of the conversation, where the authors discuss fighting Big Tech's hype.

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The AI Con

Mentioned by David Stein as a critical perspective on AI chatbots, viewing them skeptically.

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Will AI Wipe Out Half of White Collar Jobs or Is There an AI Bubble?

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Alex Hanna at the beginning of the podcast as his upcoming book.

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"AI" Agents, A Single Point of Failure (with Margaret Mitchell), 2025.03.31

Mentioned by Justin Hendrix as a new book, calling it a product of the podcast come to life.

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Taking on the AI Con

Mentioned by

Alex Hanna as their forthcoming book.

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Episode 47: Hell is Other People's AI Hype, December 9 2024

Recommended by Vauhini Vara as an instructive and accessible book about AI and its connection with capitalism.

Why "AI" Is a Con: Our Book Launch! (with Vauhini Vara), 2025.05.08

Discussed by the authors, the book explores the hype around AI, its beneficiaries, and associated harms, offering ideas for resistance.

Is AI a Con?

Mentioned by

Alex Hanna at the beginning of the podcast as his and

Emily M. Bender 's newly published book.

AGI: "Imminent", "Inevitable", and Inane, 2025.04.21

Mentioned by

Alex Hanna , referring to their own recently published book.

"Like Magic Intelligence in the Cloud", 2025.05.26

Mentioned by

Emily M. Bender when discussing the impact of AI hype.

Sam Altman's Fever Dream, 2025.01.13

Mentioned by Lauren Gawne as Emily Bender's upcoming book on AI.

98: Helping computers decode sentences - Interview with Emily M. Bender

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