Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist
Did your summer feel like an unending barrage of terrible ideas for how to use “AI”? You’re not alon
Dr. Clara Berridge joins Alex and Emily to talk about the many 'uses' for generative AI in
The Washington Post is going all in on AI -- surely this won't be a repeat of any past, disastr
Could this meeting have been an e-mail that you didn't even have to read? Emily and Alex are te
We regret to report that companies are still trying to make generative AI that can 'transform&a
When is a research paper not a research paper? When a big tech company uses a preprint server as a m
You've already heard about the rock-prescribing, glue pizza-suggesting hazards of Google's
The politicians are at it again: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's series of industry-cent
Will the LLMs somehow become so advanced that they learn to lie to us in order to achieve their own
AI Hell froze over this winter and now a flood of meltwater threatens to drown Alex and Emily. Armed
Will AI someday do all our scientific research for us? Not likely. Drs. Molly Crockett and Lisa Mess
Dr. Timnit Gebru guest-hosts with Alex in a deep dive into Marc Andreessen's 2023 manifesto, wh
Award-winning AI journalist Karen Hao joins Alex and Emily to talk about why LLMs can't possibl
Alex and Emily put on their social scientist hats and take on the churn of research papers suggestin
Science fiction authors and all-around tech thinkers Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders join thi
Just Tech Fellow Dr. Chris Gilliard aka "Hypervisible" joins Emily and Alex to talk about
Is ChatGPT really going to take your job? Emily and Alex unpack two hype-tastic papers that make imp
New year, same Bullshit Mountain. Alex and Emily are joined by feminist technosolutionism critics El
AI Hell has frozen over for a single hour. Alex and Emily visit all seven circles in a tour of the w
Congress spent 2023 busy with hearings to investigate the capabilities, risks and potential uses of
