Really appreciate this review of our book (w/ @Alex Hanna "By insisting on the term “automation,” Bender and Hanna reveal that what’s sold as innovation is often just labor displacement with better branding." "…a demystifying, often hilarious lexicon that cuts through the fog of hype."
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Return of the Luddites | Los Angeles Review of Books
Erik J. Larson considers “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want” by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna.
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 65:
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Crunching the Numbers (with Decca Muldowney), 2025.10.20 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
So-called AI tools are increasingly infiltrating newsrooms, particularly when it comes to data analysis. DAIR writer-in-residence Decca Muldowney j...
 … in which @npub1v9aa...5z6v joins me and @Alex Hanna to talk about what it means to actually do journalism. Thanks to @ozzy goodman for production!
Today! ~~ It's been over six months since our last "all hell" episode and the nonsense has been piling up faster than ever. Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, in which @Alex Hanna and I will celebrate spooky season with another all-hell extravaganza! Monday, Oct 27 at noon PT,
Twitch
Twitch
Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.
Join us tomorrow! ~~ It's been over six months since our last "all hell" episode and the nonsense has been piling up faster than ever. Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, in which @Alex Hanna and I will celebrate spooky season with another all-hell extravaganza! Monday, Oct 27 at noon PT,
Twitch
Twitch
Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.
It's been over six months since our last "all hell" episode and the nonsense has been piling up faster than ever. Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, in which @Alex Hanna and I will celebrate spooky season with another all-hell extravaganza! Monday, Oct 27 at noon PT,
Twitch
Twitch
Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.
Today!
Distributed AI Research Community
Alex Hanna (@alex@dair-community.social)
Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream, in which @emilymbender and I will be joined by @DAIR’s writer-in-residence @decc...
Join us tomorrow!
Distributed AI Research Community
Alex Hanna (@alex@dair-community.social)
Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream, in which @emilymbender and I will be joined by @DAIR’s writer-in-residence @decc...
Must-watch piece from @npub1dqh4...eq5y about the mental health risks of chatbots --- especially as Altman is going around having claimed to have "mitigated" them.
"AI" research community: 1) Claims to be building "everything machines", doesn't acknowledge that that means what they're doing is untestable (see Gebru & Torres 2024) https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636 2) Plays leaderboard games instead of doing serious evaluation (see Raji et al 2021)
AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark
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Happy birthday to our little pod! In Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Ep 63 @Alex Hanna and I reflect on three years (three years!) of ridicule as praxis & answer listener questions.
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Three Years of Ridicule as Praxis, 2025.09.19 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
It's Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000's third birthday! To celebrate, Emily and Alex respond to listener questions about the show, and reflect on the p...
 Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!