Altman and Ive have ruined San Francisco. @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) and I take on the ridiculous marketing video which came out of OpenAI several weeks ago in Ep. 58 of our podcast.
Alex Hanna
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Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute.
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Thousands of Californians returning to the community after incarceration face a parole system that’s fragmented, difficult to navigate, and often...
Tech bros don’t actually understand the sci-fi they claim to love. Thank you Al Jazeera English for having me on.
My first for Bay Area Current -- A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough.
Bay Area Current
Fuck Waymo, Long Live KitKat
A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. Peopl...
DAIR’s (@npub1mmfh...2mx9) latest report offers a chilling glimpse into how Amazon is using technology to ramp up surveillance of delivery drivers, violating existing workers' rights and creating unsafe working conditions.
DAIR (Distributed AI Research Institute)
Worker Surveillance and Wage Theft
How algorithmic management and workplace surveillance allows corporations to steal wages, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream, in which
@Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) and I will be joined by
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@npub1v9aa...5z6v to discuss AI and data journalism!
Monday, Oct 20 at noon PT, 
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 64
@npub16weg...aqxd joins @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) and I to talk about how we don’t need tech bros to read sci-fi better, they need to understand it better.
Also available as video on peertube!
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Building Worlds Through Better Reading (with Reo Eveleth), 2025.09.29 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Powerful AI boosters claim to love science fiction novels, but why do they always seem to take the wrong lessons from them? Reporter and writer Reo...
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 64 - Building Worlds Through Better Reading (with Reo Eveleth)
Powerful AI boosters claim to love science fiction novels, but why do they always seem to take the wrong lessons from them? Reporter and writer Reo...
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 fans! We're moving our livestream to Friday. In the meantime, @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) and I are soooo close to a major download milestone!
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fa...
We're seeing sales creep up for The AI Con (thecon.ai) and for that, we're really thankful!
Let us know if you've put it on a syllabus, or shared with your AI skeptic friends who are wondering what all this mess is all about.
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Tina Park, Sophie Song, and I wrote about Trump's AI Action Plan, the narrative of "upskilling" on both the right and left, and how the myth of AI automation is forcing actual workers to do more with less.
Tech Policy Press
Don't Be Fooled By Trump's Plan To 'Upskill' Workers To Prepare For AI | TechPolicy.Press
The future of work does not require an unquestioning acceptance and embrace of AI, write DAIR's Alex Hanna, Tina Park, and Sophie Song.