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AI summer hype skepticism essay

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

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Emily M. Bender Alex Hanna Timnit Gebru The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Rudolph Fraser. Baldur Bjarnason Teresa Heffernan

“From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...”

“www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...”

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Emily M. Bender: From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
Baldur Bjarnason: From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
Colin: I like a lot of what's in this article but I think it's worth at least noting that OpenAI (credibly, in my opinion) outright denies Buckmaster's insinuations, and the problem that OpenAI gave a sol…
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Established Responsible AI Analysis 6d ago
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AI ethics discourse problems essay

Six Problems With Talking About the “Ethical” or “Responsible” Use of “AI”

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Emily M. Bender The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Charles Logan Abstract Tesseract Baldur Bjarnason

“Here is the newsletter post I reference in that clip: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...”

“New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @emilymbender.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social on what we're talking about when we talk about "ethical" "AI", and how to move away from the untenable middle ground and towards firm "AI" resistan…”

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