Emily and I are SO excited to have been picked to be a LibraryReads notable nonfiction book! LibraryReads is a list put together by public librarians all around the country.
LibraryReads
LibraryReads - Top 10 Books Nominated by Library Staff
LibraryReads is a list of the top ten books published this month that library staff across the country have voted on as their favorites.
 We see libraries and librarians as important institutions in helping us push back against AI hype, and so this is quite the distinction. with @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her). Pre-order now at
THE AI CON
THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
Wherein @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) and I ridicule the idea that Llama 4 is debiased of "left-leaning" influence. Apologies for the Zuck-face jumpscare.
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Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”
Meta’s Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the data, and wants to be more like Elon Musk’s Grok.
Big AI CON news from @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) and me today! First, we're doing a GoodReads giveaway! Enter and you could be one of 25 people to get a free book!
Book giveaway for The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want – Exposing Surveillance Capitalism and Artificial Intelligence Myths in Information Technology Today by Emily M. Bender Apr 03-Apr 20, 2025
25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Apr 03-Apr 20, 2025. A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the ...
The State Department has said they have revoked visas of more than 300 students. They have been terrorizing hundreds and aim to terrorize hundreds, if not thousands more. Faculty on here: how are you protecting your international students? Are you connecting with local immigration defense groups? How are you protecting them from being snatched off the street? https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/trump-palestinian-hamas-purge-colleges-protests
More praise for THE AI CON: "A powerful and timely deep dive into what the AI hype cycle is REALLY about, why it’s bound to crash, and what we can all do to protect ourselves from it. An absolute must-read!" - Karla Ortiz Out on May 13, but you can preorder now!
THE AI CON
THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
'a key benefit for the army will be the tool’s ability to rapidly process large quantities of surveillance material in order to “answer questions” about specific individuals...' '“AI amplifies power,” an intelligence source who has closely followed the [IOF] development of language models.. “It allows operations [utilizing] the data of far more people, enabling population control."' Why do we need surveillance studies when Unit 8200 just tweets it out? https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-chatgpt-8200-surveillance-ai/
Kirkus calls THE AI CON "a refreshingly contrarian take on AI and the clouds of hyperbole surrounding it."
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THE AI CON | Kirkus Reviews
The bots probably aren’t going to kill you, but they’re probably not going to save you, either.
 @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
Starting a podcast called Too Many Tech Bros, which has the same premise of Sooo Many White Guys, but we talk about tech and AI
Pre-order alert, cover, and website reveal for our book, THE AI CON! (with @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)) It's out for release on May 13, 2025!
THE AI CON
THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
New open-access paper by Ellen Berrey, Nathan Kim, Kristen Bass, and me over at Socius -- We analyzed over 16,000 news articles using a machine-assisted system, yielding a dataset of 5,553 higher ed protest events, and university and police responses. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231241297447