The AI Con book tour, next stops: I'll be in the UK next week, for the following two events: July 15, 2025: in conversation with Catherine Pope at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Services. https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/events/how-to-fight-ai-hype-and-create-the-future-we-want July 16, 2025: in conversation with Guy Emerson at the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery.
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The AI Con: In Conversation with Professor Emily M. Bender
Will new technology help to make the world a better place, or is AI just another tech bubble that will benefit the few?
 Full details & links to recordings of some previous events:
THE AI CON
Events - THE AI CON
Upcoming events TBD Recordings available May 8, 2025, DAIR Institute, virtual book launch with Vauhini Vara (audio only podcast version) May 12, 20...
"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."
Organizing My Thoughts
Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025
"This is the endgame of our isolation."
The AI Con book tour continues! June 30: Alex in Berlin July 1: Emily in Melbourne July 17: Emily in Cambridge Details:
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Speechless in the face of so much violence being done by our government.
Sitting down for a lunch interview is definitely an interesting experience! Leaving the roughly two-hour conversation with George Hammond, I felt like we'd covered good ground but had no idea what of that would make it into the piece. In the end, I think this covers it pretty well, though I (of course) have a couple of quibbles/some context to add.
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New policy: Anyone who at-s me with the output of a synthetic text extruding machine gets muted or blocked.
Got asked to review a book proposal for "A Guide to Prompt Engineering". More accurate title: "A Guide to Poking at the Environmentally Disastrous Racist Pile of Linear Algebra Trained on Stolen Data and Exploitative Labor Practices to Produce Outputs You're Too Lazy to Learn to Evaluate"
To all communities currently being targeted as locations for data centers, the companies aiming to put those in deserve no benefit of the doubt. I'm really glad @timsteller.bsky.social is on top of this one.
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For Star subscribers: The Pima County Board of Supervisors is set to vote Tuesday on selling land for a huge data center development. The investmen...
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The AI Con book tour is headed abroad! @Alex Hanna and I aren't traveling together but check out
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Events - THE AI CON
Upcoming events TBD Recordings available May 8, 2025, DAIR Institute, virtual book launch with Vauhini Vara (audio only podcast version) May 12, 20...
 for our upcoming events, starting with Edinburgh (Alex, June 20), Sydney (Emily, June 25) and Melbourne (Emily, July 1)
For everyone who was sad to miss it, the recording of the Data & Society event about THE AI CON (me and @Alex Hanna) and EMPIRE OF AI (@npub1dqh4...eq5y) moderated by @npub1lepu...v0g2 is now online! https://datasociety.net/events/challenging-ai-hype-and-tech-industry-power