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essay how to talk AI

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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Hypervisible Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle +3

“A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if…”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

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Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
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Established AI field signal Signal 17d ago

faculty.washington.edu

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Emily M. Bender

“Also no. See: faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape...”

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Emily M. Bender: This sign is a great example for helping to explain why chatbots present such a potent illusion. A probably not short thread 🧵>>
Emily M. Bender: A point I frequently make when talking about chatbots is that their output only seems to make sense because we are making sense of it. And worse, we can only do that sense-making by projecting a mi…
Emily M. Bender: While you might think that understanding something someone wrote is simply a matter of unpacking the meaning (or message) they packed into the words, in fact what we do is much cooler and more invo…
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
Mystery AI Hype Theater podcast

Working 9 to Hype, 2026.08.10 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

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Emily M. Bender Alex Hanna The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Charles Logan

“Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Ep 84, in which @alexhanna.bsky.social and I explore the gulf between what the tech companies say the impact of "AI" on labor is and what they are actually doing with their mathy maths: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...”

“Full episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...”

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Alex Hanna: “AI assisted” autism screening?? 🤦🏽 From Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “Working 9 to Hype”. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
Alex Hanna: Full episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
Emily M. Bender: “AI assisted” autism screening?? 🤦🏽 From Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “Working 9 to Hype”. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
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AI illusions understanding scientific research Nature

Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research - Nature

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Emily M. Bender Andrea Lathrop

“I follow @mjcrockett.bsky.social and @lmesseri.bsky.social in believing science (and in fact all scholarship) to be an essentially human activity. (@alexhanna.bsky.social and I write about this in The AI Con, too.) www.nature.com/articles/s41... >>”

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Emily M. Bender: A beautiful essay indeed, and great jumping off point for people across all fields of scholarship to reflect on what it is we are doing and why. A short thread >>
Emily M. Bender: I follow @mjcrockett.bsky.social and @lmesseri.bsky.social in believing science (and in fact all scholarship) to be an essentially human activity. (@alexhanna.bsky.social and I write about this in …
Abstract Tesseract: A beautiful essay indeed, and great jumping off point for people across all fields of scholarship to reflect on what it is we are doing and why. A short thread >>
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Established AI field signal Signal 12d ago

2026 Washington State Book Award Finalists Announced! – Washington Center for the Book

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Emily M. Bender Baldur Bjarnason

“Very proud that The AI Con is a finalist for the 2026 Washington State Book Award (General Nonfiction/Biography) washingtoncenterforthebook.org/2026-washing... w/@alexhanna.bsky.social”

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Emily M. Bender: Very proud that The AI Con is a finalist for the 2026 Washington State Book Award (General Nonfiction/Biography) washingtoncenterforthebook.org/2026-washing... w/@alexhanna.bsky.social
Emily M. Bender: Thank you!
Baldur Bjarnason: Very proud that The AI Con is a finalist for the 2026 Washington State Book Award (General Nonfiction/Biography) washingtoncenterforthebook.org/2026-washing... w/@alexhanna.bsky.social
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Emily M. Bender Paris Marx Marielza
Paris Marx: nice to see taylor take off the mask and show she’s a complete stooge for the tech industry. if you’re as ai-pilled as she is, you need to minimize the threat posed by the hyperscale data centers t…
Paris Marx: it’s ridiculous to suggest data centers are just bad when they’re powered by natural gas, as if the industry isn’t fuelling a massive boom in new gas plants making emissions reductions basically im…
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