Con, with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

Emily M.Bender and Alex Hanna have been leading the charge against "AI", helping us understand it for the con that it is, and how AI companies are turning to health, education, and other social realms to try to recover their costs. In this episode we discuss LLMs vs. what the AI (and AGI) con is -- who benefits, and who loses -- and much more. Recorded July 15, 2025. Released July 28, 2025.The AI Conhttps://thecon.ai/Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000https://www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/The predatory fantasy of worker empowerment in AI marketingJustine Zhang, Su Lin Blodgett, Nina MarklAI x Crisis: Tracing New Directions Beyond Deployment and Use workshop, Aarhus 2025.AI isn’t replacing student writing – but it is reshaping ithttps://theconversation.com/ai-isnt-replacing-student-writing-but-it-is-reshaping-it-254878Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.