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Mentioned in 19 episodes

The AI Con

How to fight big tech's hype and create the future we want
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Mentioned in 19 episodes

Recommended by
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Paris Marx
as a concise and detailed primer on AI hype, its problems, and ways to push back.
151 snips
Generative AI is Not Inevitable w/ Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
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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.
74 snips
AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking — With Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
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Emily M. Bender
as their book and encourages listeners to buy it.
42 snips
The "AI"-Enabled Immigration Panopticon (with Petra Molnar), 2025.05.05
Written by Emily Bender and
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Alex Hanna
to encourage a more critical look at AI.
31 snips
AI is more marketing hype than real capabilities, new book suggests
Mentioned in the podcast outro as a book available for pre-order.
30 snips
The War on Knowledge (with Raina Bloom), 2025.02.24
Mentioned in the podcast outro as a book available for pre-order.
25 snips
Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese), 2025.01.27
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Jathan Sadowski
as a needed guide to understanding AI and the promises being made in Silicon Valley.
25 snips
408. Synthetic Text Extruder Hype (ft. Emily Bender, Alex Hanna)
Written by Emily Bender and
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Alex Hanna
to discuss the misuse of the term AI and the impact of Big Tech's models on marginalized communities.
23 snips
Emily Bender & Alex Hanna: “The AI Con”
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Bonni Stachowiak
as the focus of the conversation, where the authors discuss fighting Big Tech's hype.
19 snips
The AI Con
Mentioned by David Stein as a critical perspective on AI chatbots, viewing them skeptically.
15 snips
Will AI Wipe Out Half of White Collar Jobs or Is There an AI Bubble?
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Justin Hendrix
as a new book, calling it a product of the podcast come to life.
14 snips
Taking on the AI Con
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Alex Hanna
at the beginning of the podcast as his upcoming book.
14 snips
"AI" Agents, A Single Point of Failure (with Margaret Mitchell), 2025.03.31
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Alex Hanna
as their forthcoming book.
11 snips
Episode 47: Hell is Other People's AI Hype, December 9 2024
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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?
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Alex Hanna
at the beginning of the podcast as his and
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Emily M. Bender
's newly published book.
AGI: "Imminent", "Inevitable", and Inane, 2025.04.21
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Alex Hanna
, referring to their own recently published book.
"Like Magic Intelligence in the Cloud", 2025.05.26
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Emily M. Bender
when discussing the impact of AI hype.
Sam Altman's Fever Dream, 2025.01.13
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Lauren Gawne
as Emily Bender's upcoming book on AI.
98: Helping computers decode sentences - Interview with Emily M. Bender

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