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<div>Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They're joined by special guests and talk about everything, from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines.</div>
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Winning the Race to Hell (with Sarah Myers West and Kate Brennan), 2025.08.04
Published: August 26, 2025 10:00
Trump’s “AI Action Plan” is his latest attempt to turn AI hype into official national policy. Kate Brennan and Sarah Myers West, of the AI Now Institute, join us to dig through this pile of deregulatory gifts to Big Tech.Dr. Sarah Myers West is…
Vibe Coding: Four Security Nightmares in a Trenchcoat (with Susanna Cox), 2025.07.21
Published: August 13, 2025 10:00
After many months of making fun of the term "vibe coding," Emily and Alex tackle the LLMs-as-coders fad head-on, with help from security researcher Susanna Cox. From one person's screed that proclaims everyone not on the vibe-coding bandwagon to be crazy,…
Et Tu, American Federation of Teachers? (with Charles Logan), 2025.07.14
Published: July 30, 2025 10:00
The chatbot boosters are looking for educators to play brand ambassador for more intrusion of so-called "AI" into the classroom. From the American Federation of Teachers' new partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft for a "national academy for AI instruction"…
Why "AI" Is a Con: Our Book Launch! (fear. Vauhini Vara)
Published: July 7, 2025 10:00
It's finally here! The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want hit the shelves in May. In this special bonus episode, Alex and Emily speak to tech journalist Vauhini Vara at one of the book's online launch events, where they…
"Like Magic Intelligence in the Cloud", 2025.05.26
Published: June 20, 2025 01:00
Because Sam Altman hates opening his laptop, OpenAI is merging with iPhone guy Jony Ive's design firm in the name of some mysterious new ChatGPT-enabled consumer products: Alex and Emily go full Mystery Science Theater and dissect the announcement video.…
The "AI"-Enabled Immigration Panopticon (with Petra Molnar), 2025.05.05
Published: May 28, 2025 10:00
This week, Alex and Emily talk with anthropologist and immigration lawyer Petra Molnar about the dehumanizing hype of border-enforcement tech. From hoovering up data to hunt anyone of ambiguous citizenship status, to running surveillance of physical…
AGI: "Imminent", "Inevitable", and Inane, 2025.04.21
Published: May 14, 2025 10:00
Emily and Alex pore through an elaborate science fiction scenario about the "inevitability" of Artificial General Intelligence or AGI by the year 2027 - which rests atop a foundation of TESCREAL nonsense, and Sinophobia to boot.References:AI 2027Fresh AI…
AI Hell in a Handbasket, 2025.04.14
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/17065555-ai-hell-in-a-handbasket-2025-04-14.mp3
Published: April 30, 2025 10:00
It's been 4 months since we've cleared the backlog of Fresh AI Hell and the bullshit is coming in almost too fast to keep up with. But between a page full of awkward unicorns and a seeming slowdown in data center demand, Alex and Emily have more good news…
"AI" Agents, A Single Point of Failure (with Margaret Mitchell), 2025.03.31
Published: April 17, 2025 10:00
After "AI" stopped meaning anything, the hype salesmen moved on to "AI" "agents", those allegedly indefatigable assistants, allegedly capable of operating your software for you -- whether you need to make a restaurant reservation, book a flight, or book a…
Linguists Versus 'AI' Speech Analysis (with Nicole Holliday), 2025.03.17
Published: April 2, 2025 10:00
Measuring your talk time? Counting your filler words? What about "analyzing" your "emotions"? Companies that push LLM technology to surveil and summarize video meetings are increasingly offering to (purportedly) analyze your participation and assign your…
The Anti-Bookclub Tackles 'Superagency', 2025.03.03
Published: March 19, 2025 10:00
Emily and Alex read a terrible book so you don't have to! Come for a quick overview of LinkedIn co-founder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman's opus of magical thinking, 'Superagency: What could possibly go right with our AI future' -- stay for the…