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79: A.I. Hype Hosedown (with Emily Bender and Jack Hessel)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Dehumanization of AI

The way that AI technology is being used to displace workers and de-skill jobs, it's basically saying, look, humans just do computation like this. And so let's have the computer do a big chunk of it, and then we can do clean up with the humans and pay them less because that's cheaper. So if we look at humans as computing machines, that is very dehumanizing. I really think it is.

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