Emily M Bender, University of Washington

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Emily bender is a writer and professor at the university of washington. Her work has been published in open access publications since her first book came out more than 10 years ago. She says she's always looking for new ways to get information about climate change, but that we don't know enough right now. Bender: "Theres soething we canknow about that... A is only coming if ... We keep trying to build it"

Is artificial intelligence a problem, or is the real problem how we’re using the term in the first place? Linguistics professor Emily Bender joins Adam to discuss why we should resist the urge to be impressed when it comes to big tech’s AI promises, and how our belief in the fantasy of A.I. could be worse than the reality. You can follow Emily on Twitter at @emilymbender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.