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.
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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 @npub1mmfh...2mx9’s writer-in-residence @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
Buzzsprout
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...
 @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.Β  Also available as video on peertube!
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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! Share and subscribe to the pod and your AI skeptical friends.
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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. @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
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.
"In many ways, Bender and Hanna successfully demonstrate that AI is a con. It fails at productivity and intelligence, while the hype launders a series of transformations that harm workers, exacerbate inequality and damage the environment." Nice write-up of The AI Con by Luke Munn in The Conversation.
The Conversation
Is AI a con? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist
AI slop means faster and cheaper content, and the technical and financial logic of online platforms creates a race to the bottom.
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If you're at #FACCT2025 today, check out our AI Workers' Inquiry, where we'll have a stellar panel of workers organizing against AI and host a participatory session. You can also participate online!
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AI Workers
Our conversation with @npub1dqh4...eq5y is starting in a little less than two hours! @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) and I will see you there. https://datasociety.net/events/challenging-ai-hype-and-tech-industry-power/
Columbus! @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) and I are here and excited for our last joint, in-person event of our book tour, at the WOSU Community Studio on Pearl Street (not the Ross Community Center!) https://prologuebookshop.ticketbud.com/theaicon