THE AI CON: HOW TO FIGHT BIG TECH'S HYPE AND CREATE THE FUTURE WE WANT

Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna

Saturday, May 17, 2025
7:00 pm

THE AI CON: HOW TO FIGHT BIG TECH'S HYPE AND CREATE THE FUTURE WE WANT

A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors at work and in the world.

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Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna

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Dr. Emily M. Bender is a professor of linguistics at the University of Washington where she is the director of the Computational Linguistics Master of Science Program. In 2023 she was included in the inaugural TIME 100 list of most influential people in AI.

Dr. Alex Hanna is the director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and a lecturer in the School of Information at U.C. Berkeley. She is an outspoken critic of the tech industry and has been featured across the media including the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Atlantic, and TIME.

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