← Feed

Posts

• Post #4358394

  RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117016420622784045 Today!

• Post #4349677

  RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116974840056295473 Also available as video on PeerTube: https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/23g3vAkBsgQM1svfo3hhRD

• Post #4349676

  RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117016420622784045 Join us tomorrow!

• Post #4290178

  From Altman proclaiming the “singularity”, to the Guardian publishing blather about possible AI consciousness, to OpenAI and Anthropic blaming their cybercrimes on “rogue models” the nonsense is coming fast and thick these days and much of the media is lapping it up. Time for another Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream with me and @alex@dair-community.social: Monday, August 3, noon PT https://twitch.tv/dair_institute

• Post #4063172

  One of my worst speech technology nightmares has been happening right in my own city! In the latest Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, @alex@dair-community.social and I dig into it: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/19535278-state-of-emergency-2026-06-29

• Post #4029861

  Happy UK paperback release day to our book! https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/468070/the-ai-con-by-hanna-emily-m-bender-and-alex/9781529949902 w/ @alex@dair-community.social

• Post #4019277

  LinkedIn where people come to proudly state that they have cooked their own brains and/or just really really love licking those boots. All of these were in response to my post about the ACM's announcement that they've decided "Now is the Time to Give LLMS Access to the ACM Digital Library" and then requestd input on that decision.

• Post #4001028

  A couple of days ago I did a jetlagged live posting on bsky about the terrible op-ed in the Guardian about "AI" consciousness. Not going to port it bit by bit over here, but someone used skywriter to put it all in one place. For your enjoyment, some ridicule as praxis: https://skywriter.blue/@emilymbender.bsky.social/3mqzj7xzqfc2i

• Post #3972999

  RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116935294823990847 Over on LinkedIn, I heard from Jeanna Matthews, who is co-chairing an ACM taskforce on Responsible AI use (saving commentary on that framing for later...) pointing out that this decision does *not* come from ACM leadership and that community input really does matter. Make your voice heard here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeq7MFM7TlSXIaIXQnIltiQeWE_w3cl36HFPwql4S7u-drmzg/viewform LinkedIn screenshots in next post...

• Post #3893976

  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: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aek5570 [Note to Mastodon 'splainers. A "thread" means that I have several related and linked posts. If you reply to this one directly, you are probably effectively interrupting/talking over me.] >>

• Post #3885100

  RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@ACM/116929782094395296 This is the weirdest request for input that I've seen in a while. It's almost like the ACM is sitting at the table with the "change my mind" sign. So, let's do it. Short thread with the input I gave them:

• Post #3837823

  RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116924874418802342 I really appreciate this stance. Too many people try to use "but it's useful" as a counterargument to what we say, for example, in The AI Con. Useful for whom and at what cost (to the user and especially others) should always be the immediate follow up.

• Post #3768408

  File under plus ça change... I wrote this in April 2022 and I feel like I am still making all of those arguments today, more than four years later. https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/on-nyt-magazine-on-ai-resist-the-urge-to-be-impressed-3d92fd9a0edd (About the only thing I would change is avoiding using "human" as a noun, which has become icky.)

• Post #3739703

  This beautiful essay is a great jumping off point for people across all fields of scholarship to reflect on what it is we are doing and why. https://blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/2026-08/als-ob-philosophieren-lily-hu A short thread >>

• Post #3676229

  When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197852712.003.0067

• Post #3630542

  RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116856908123596651 Today!

• Post #3561741

  “Responsible use” of LLMs isn’t a thing! On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, sava saheli singh joins @alex@dair-community.social and me to discuss the problems with AI “harm reduction” frameworks in edtech. Monday, July 6, noon Pacific https://twitch.tv/dair_institute

• Post #3470435

  RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116817404851088358 Today!

• Post #3409658

  Handing off emergency medical services to the bullshit generator? What could go wrong!? On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream, join me and @alex@dair-community.social for a deep dive on the issues with automated ER tools. Monday, June 29, noon PT twitch.tv/dair_institute

• Post #3399619

  Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? Nanna Inie and I have got you covered: https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/

• Post #3383850

  A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use. 🧵>>

• Post #3361761

  Check it out! The AI Con is onsale for just $1.99 for the ebook on bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ai-con-how-to-fight-big-tech-s-hype-and-create-the-future-we-want-alex-hanna/914a89ac020fc825?ean=9780063418554&digital=t w/ @alex@dair-community.social

• Post #3023651

  The Guardian reviews Ghost in the Machine: "The roots of AI in rightwing ideology is examined in Valerie Veatch’s enjoyable doc, including an array of colourful, often crazed, figures" -⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/01/ghost-in-the-machine-review-entertaining-ai-polemic-dives-into-its-dark-history-in-race-politics-and-eugenics

• Post #2999341

  How should we handle it when the AI bubble bursts? On the next MAIHT3k livestream, Matt Scherer joins me and @alex@dair-community.social to discuss how we can avoid bailing out billionaires. Monday, June 1, noon PT https://twitch.tv/dair_institute

• Post #2999287

  RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116658112078254531 Join us tomorrow!

• Post #2766974

  I appreciate this op-ed by my UW colleague Tomas Rocha in the Seattle Times today, calling out our state office of public education for its weak sauce "AI" policy. https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wa-schools-ai-policy-doesnt-take-the-stakes-seriously-enough/ >>

• Post #2587850

  Seattle-area friends: See you Sunday? https://www.pikeplacemarket.org/events-calendar/folio-presents-the-ai-con-emily-m-bender-in-conversation-with-shelley-fairweather-vega/

• Post #2568331

  Hello #nlp #nlproc world: It's still the case that you should name the language you're working on. Without that, you might think you've made your claims sound more general, but in fact you've made them sound unsupported. #AmReviewing #BenderRule

• Post #2535153

  I have mixed feelings about this piece. The reporting seems fair but it's problematic to us "AI apocalypse" as the framing & elevate the fever dreams of those who are most insulated from the real harms. https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-general-intelligence AI doomers & AI boosters inhabit the same fantasy world, which would just be laughable except they are capturing too much of a scarce resource: the attention of policy makers. For a more grounde...

• Post #2499856

  Hey it's the book's birthday! Happy 1st Birthday to our book @alex :) The AI Con has been out in the world for a whole year. 🎂🎂🎂 https://thecon.ai