Emily M. Bender
Alondra Nelson
Maxim Raginsky
M.J. Crockett
Eryk Salvaggio
SE Gyges
Larry Hunter
Jack Stilgoe
M.J. Crockett: Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how muc…
M.J. Crockett: Weizenbaum was an MIT computer scientist who built one of the first chatbots, ELIZA. He wrote the book out of a growing sense of horror as he saw how “extremely short exposures to a relatively simp…
Open the thread →