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 fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They're joined by special guests and talk about everything, from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines.
Latest Episode
Crunching the Numbers (with Decca Muldowney), 2025.10.20 (30.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Building Worlds Through Better Reading (with Reo Eveleth), 2025.09.29
- Three Years of Ridicule as Praxis, 2025.09.19
- The Robo-Therapist Will See You Now (with Maggie Harrison Dupré), 2025.08.18
- Winning the Race to Hell (with Sarah Myers West and Kate Brennan), 2025.08.04
- Vibe Coding: Four Security Nightmares in a Trenchcoat (with Susanna Cox), 2025.07.21
- Et Tu, American Federation of Teachers? (with Charles Logan), 2025.07.14
- Why "AI" Is a Con: Our Book Launch! (with Vauhini Vara), 2025.05.08
- "Like Magic Intelligence in the Cloud", 2025.05.26
- The "AI"-Enabled Immigration Panopticon (with Petra Molnar), 2025.05.05
- AGI: "Imminent", "Inevitable", and Inane, 2025.04.21
- AI Hell in a Handbasket, 2025.04.14
- "AI" Agents, A Single Point of Failure (with Margaret Mitchell), 2025.03.31
- Linguists Versus 'AI' Speech Analysis (with Nicole Holliday), 2025.03.17
- The Anti-Bookclub Tackles 'Superagency', 2025.03.03
- The War on Knowledge (with Raina Bloom), 2025.02.24
- Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese), 2025.01.27
- The UK's Misplaced Enthusiasm (with Gina Neff), 2025.01.20
- Sam Altman's Fever Dream, 2025.01.13
- Episode 47: Hell is Other People's AI Hype, December 9 2024
- Episode 46: AGI Funny Business (Model), with Brian Merchant, December 2 2024
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