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Multiple readings Pangram is not an oracle Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Analysis 4d ago
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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 +5

“For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: button…”

“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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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
Pangram not oracle essay

Pangram is not an oracle

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Emily M. Bender Baldur Bjarnason
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Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Some words on how to evaluate language technologies (and caution against using them to undermine others' work) buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...”

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

““Pangram is not an oracle • Buttondown” https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/pangram-is-not-an-oracle/ > But as always, we have to be wary of any proposed technical solutions and evaluate them with care (including asking whether a technical solution is ca…”

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DAIR mystery AI hype theater podcast

The Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Podcast

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

“Buzzsprout is informing us that Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 has reached half a million downloads! Pretty proud of our scrappy lil pod. w/@alexhanna.bsky.social and producers Ozzy Llinas Goodman (present) and Christie Taylor (founding). Find all of our epis…”

“All the episodes are at dair-institute.org/maiht3k/. New episodes should appear there a week or so after the live streams.”

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Established AI business Resource 3d ago
Ghost in Machine Oxford film screening

IF Oxford presents: Ghost In the Machine + Director Q&A - The Ultimate Picture Palace

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Emily M. Bender ana valdivia Oxford Internet Institute

“This is tomorrow! Join us! Tickets: uppcinema.com/show/if-oxfo...”

“Ghost in the Machine, Valerie Veatch's documentary on the history of AI, comes to Oxford's Ultimate Picture Palace on 22 October. The OII's Dr @anavaldi.bsky.social, who features in the film, joins Valerie for a Q&A after the screening. Screening 6pm, Q&A 8…”

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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 5d ago
tech workers AI union podcast

My Tech Workers Have Unionized, 2026.10.05 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

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Emily M. Bender Alex Hanna Timnit Gebru

“Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 87: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... in which @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to talk about bosses' love for "AI" and tech worker power.”

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

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3 experts · 4 posts · 1d ago
Emily M. Bender Alex Hanna Alix Dunn
Alex Hanna: We hit a huge milestone! 🎉 Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 has reached half a million downloads, thanks to many of you. We started as an accidental podcast in May 2022. Now, 500k downloads and a lot o…
Emily M. Bender: We hit a huge milestone! 🎉 Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 has reached half a million downloads, thanks to many of you. We started as an accidental podcast in May 2022. Now, 500k downloads and a lot o…
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2 experts · 7 posts · 6d ago
Emily M. Bender Colin
Emily M. Bender: I don't actually follow Stancil, but I do follow the phrase "stochastic parrots" and that seems to be a pretty reliable way to get notified when he's on here flaunting his ignorance (about "AI" spe…
Emily M. Bender: Or maybe not -- I guess I don't have any sense of recall, just precision. Perhaps he flaunts his ignorance on this topic even more frequently and I don't see all of it.
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