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science.org

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Emily M. Bender Mar Hicks Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest M.J. Crockett Claes de Vreese Joe Bak-Coleman Lisa Messeri +5

“This article ends with a good conclusion, but it is extremely misguided along the way. It is also a rich text for exploring how clear language helps make the point better. A thread: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... >>”

“This editor/author does the same “trick” as he writes: "Recently, the ability of large language models (LLMs) to predict protein structures and to accelerate the discovery of new materials has revolutionized both fields. New AI agents can now carry out many…”

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Established NLP & language Development 4d ago

EMNLP 2026 AI Reviewing Experiment

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Emily M. Bender M.J. Crockett

“I did not submit anything to #EMNLP2026, which is probably part of why I missed this when it was first posted in May, but I want to say now that I am utterly appalled that @aclmeeting.bsky.social & @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social are engaging in this nonsense. 20…”

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8 experts · 45 posts · 17d ago
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…
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